Slide 1

The Information and Knowledge Objective

to improve understanding of oceanic fish resources of the WCP warm pool

Component 1: Scientific Assessment and Monitoring Enhancement

which aims at providing improved scientific information and knowledge on the oceanic fish stocks and related ecosystem, and at strengthening the national capacities of Pacific SIDS in these areas

Subcomponent 1.3 Ecosystem Analysis

Subcomponent 1.2 Stock Assessment

Subcomponent 1.1 Fishery Monitoring, Coordination and Enhancement

addressed by

Valerie ALLAIN

Fishery Scientist

(Ecosystem Analysis)

Bruno LEROY

Fishery Scientist

(Ecosystem Monitoring)

Donald BROMHEAD

Fishery Scientist

(Stock Assessment)

Deirdre BROGAN

Fishery Monitoring Supervisor


	•Talofa everyone, my name is Don Bromhead, I am a fishery scientist in the stock assessment section of the OFP-SPC and one of the four OFP staff specifically tasked with fulfilling SPCs obligations under the OFMP. I confess to being mostly an expert in my own area of this project but I will endeavour to answer any questions you might have pertaining to the other areas as best I can, and if I cant answer a question will endeavour to provide an answer by days end after contacting my other OFMP colleagues back in Noumea.

	•The OFP_SPCs main role in the Oceanic Fisheries Management project is to undertake a range of activities that address the “Information and Knowledge Objective” of that project – more specifically to improve the understanding of oceanic fish resources of the Western and Central Pacific Warm Pool.
	• These activities occur under Component 1 of that objective, being the scientific assessment and monitoring enhancement which aims to [read slide]…
	•We have four staff working directly to this project, being …[Read slide]

	•I am now going to provide an overview of the tasks under each subcomponent and OFP-SPC progress towards achieving those tasks in the past 12 months.