Honiara Summit
Iumi tugeda delivering on SDG 14.4: Achieving Sustainable Fisheries
Day 1 - Tuesday 25 February 2025
Side event 1: Climate change and fisheries: impacts and innovative solutions
Speakers:
- H. E. Mr. Odo Tevi, Pacific Small Island Developing States Chair, Permanent Representative of Vanuatu to the United Nations​
- Dr Krishnan Paulpandian, Director, Bay of Bengal Programme
- Dr. Tarub Bahri, Fisheries resources officer, FAO
- Mr. Sefanaia Nawadra, Director-General, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Samoa
- Mr. Marc Sadler, Manager Environment and Climate Change, East Asia & Pacific region, World Bank.
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Side event 2: SIDS and Fisheries Sustainability
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Mr. Erik Lindebo, Team Leader for Climate Change and Natural Resources Cooperation, European Union Delegation to the Pacific Dr Yvette Diei-Ouadi, FAO Fishery and Aquaculture Officer, WECAFC, Barbados
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Dr. Minako Iue, Sailors for the Sea Japan Chair & CEO
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Ms Nadine Nembhard, Co-Chair, World Forum of Fisher People (WFFP)
Session 1: Progress in the implementation of SDG 14.4
Panel 1.1: Status of fish stocks: measuring what we are managing

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KEYNOTE: Professor Manuel Barange Assistant Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Director of its Fisheries and Aquaculture Division
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FACILITATOR: Patrick Caleo, Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)
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Dr. Eva Plaganyi, Senior Principal Research Scientist and Research Group Leader , CSIRO Environment, Australia
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Dr William John Hampton, Chief Scientist, the Pacific Community (SPC)FACILITATOR:
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Graça Bauleth D'AlmeidaDirector of Resource Management at the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources in Namibia.
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Session 1: Progress in the implementation of SDG 14.4
Panel 1.2: Advancing sustainable fisheries: managing what we want to sustain

Speakers:
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FACILITATOR: David Welch, Principal and Senior Scientist, C2O Fisheries, Cairns, Australia and Port Vila, Vanuatu
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Pamela Maru, Cook Islands Ministry of Marine Resources (MMR)
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Dr. Sonia Batten, Executive Secretary of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES)
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Dr. Tang Yi, Professor of the College of Marine Living Resources Science and Management, Shanghai Ocean University
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Session 2: Role of Regional Fisheries bodies in supporting implementation of SDG14.4 - regional perspective.
Panel 2.1: Cooperation to achieve sustainable fisheries management
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KEYNOTE: Hon. Feleti Penitala Teo, Prime Minister of Tuvalu
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FACILITATOR: Alice McDonald, Senior Fishery Officer, at FAO, and is the Secretary of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) and the Secretary of the Regional Fishery Body Secretariats Network
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Dr Miguel Bernal Bernal, Executive Secretary of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) of FAO
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Dominic Vallieres, Executive Secretary for the Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT)
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Dr Manu Tupou-Roosen , RSN Co-Chair and former Director General of FFA
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Camille Jean Pierre MANEL, the Executive Secretary of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
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Session 2: Role of Regional Fisheries bodies in supporting implementation of SDG14.4 - regional perspective.
Panel 2.2: Collaborative regional solutions to complex challenges
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FACILITATOR: Darius Campbell, Secretary of the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission, FAO
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Dr. KRISHNAN PAULPANDIAN, Director of Bay of Bengal Intergovernmental Organization (BOBP-IGO)
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Dr Josie Tamate, WCPFC Chair
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Taoufik EL KTIRI, Executive Secretary of the Ministerial Conference for Fisheries Cooperation between African States bordering the Atlantic Ocean
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