AQUATIC RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND COASTLINE INTEGRITY WORKSHOP
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED INDEFINITELY
Aquatic Resources Management and Coastline Integrity Workshop
June 15-18, 2020
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Synopsis
Canada has enviably managed her aquatic resources and her territorial landscape over decades. This has boosted her ocean economy and made her the developing nation’s prime help. She boasts of a coastline approximately 265,000 km and has adequately secured this for safety and economic development. Nigeria struggles with securing her waters with a coastline of just over 3,000km and has lost millions of dollars to ocean crime in addition to the risk of coastline porosity. Of concern also are the global challenges of ocean pollution and dwindling of aquatic resources, climate change and global warming.
The Global Fisheries Enforcement Workshop hosted by the International Monitoring, Control and Surveillance Network in San Jose, Costa Rica in 2014 witnessed policy makers in Nigeria who learnt a lot from nations like Canada and the USA. Probably much of these have not been translated into operational beneficial use. This workshop however provides a direct bilateral engagement. Areas to be addressed as requested by stakeholders in Nigeria include; Ocean Protection Plan, Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainability of the Small-Scale Fisheries Certification of Aquaculture Enterprises, Fish Stock Assessments, Fish Observers Program, Fisheries Statistics Data Collection and Analysis, Marine Fisheries Monitoring Programs, Training in Development of Fisheries Management Plan (particularly for Artisanal sector) and Fisheries Crime.
It promises to be the best educational tour Fisheries stakeholders in Nigeria have witnessed.
The symposium and trip will feature; Presentations, Interactive sessions, Boat and Bus Tours, and Networking. It is going to be a lifetime experience and opportunity.
The symposium is for Policy makers and Regulators in the Fisheries Sector, Researchers in Tertiary and Research Institutes, Large Scale and Medium Scale Fisheries Owners, and Territorial Security Officials.