Second Coral Triangle Fishers’ Forum to be Held in Fiji

Local fishers, seafood company representatives, researchers, and other stakeholders are set to gather in Suva, Fiji from June 18–22, 2012, for the second Coral Triangle Fishers Forum. The event is expected to bring together approximately 100 participants to identify strategies and models for effective partnerships on seafood traceability, reducing illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing, and achieving long-term sustainability and security in the seafood sector.

The forum aims to provide a venue for participants to share experiences on improving traceability, including catch documentation, technologies, and their anti-IUU fishing characteristics from Coral Triangle and regional fisheries. Participants will also discuss obstacles, key issues, and priorities. Additionally, the event is expected to further cultivate the CTI-CFF as a platform for regional dialogue and multi-stakeholder consensus building on sustainable fisheries, contributing to the goals of the CTI Regional Plan of Action and related Western and Central Pacific initiatives.

For more details about the upcoming event, follow this link, and to download the report of the first CTI Fishers' Forum held in 2011, click here.