This Newsletter is produced by the Pacific Community's Division of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems, Information Section, with financial assistance from the Government of Australia, the European Union and the New Zealand Aid Programme.
In this issue
SPC ACTIVITIES
- Dr Timothy David Pickering
By Neville Smith, Chinthaka Hewavitharane, Andrew Smith and Ian Bertram (pdf: 861 KB)
- Pacific fisheries ministers chart a course for a sustainable future at the fifth regional meeting
by Terry Opa (pdf: 615 KB) - Pacific Islands leaders commend progress on scaling up community-based fisheries management (CBFM) and extend the Pacific CBFM Framework for Action for a further five years
by Watisoni Lalavanua (pdf: 690 KB) - Local communities on board: Citizen science is building the regional database on stranded drifting FADs in French Polynesia
by Jennyfer Mourot (pdf: 2 MB) - Establishing a sclerochronology lab at SPC – Bombs are never good, but their signature can be useful
by Allen Andrews and Jed Macdonald (pdf: 444 KB)
NEWS FROM IN AND AROUND THE REGION
- Raising awareness of climate change by learning its language: Perspectives from a participant and an organiser
by Francisco Blaha and Steven Hare (pdf: 823 KB) - The art of climate change: SPC regional Pacific photo competition
by Johanna Johnson (pdf: 1 MB)
FEATURE ARTICLES
- Towards inclusion of persons with disabilities in coastal fisheries in the Pacific: A review of current practice and approaches
by Jenny House, Aurélie Delisle, Vasemaca Malverus, Tarateiti Uriam, Lyn Vaike and Dirk J. Steenbergen (pdf: 884 KB) - Starter pack for octopus monitoring: An overview of octopus biology, ecology and measurement protocols for fisheries management
by Hannah Gilchrist, Indah Rufiati and Epeli Loganimoce (pdf: 2 MB)