Agenda

ICES-FAO Working Group on Fishing Technology and Fish Behaviour
23-27 April 2012
Ifremer Lorient, France

Co-Chair: Michael Pol
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
New Bedford
United States of America

Co-Chair: Petri Suuronen
FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department
Rome
Italy

Study Group

21 - 22 April 9:00 17:00

SGELECTRA (Times at discretion of SG chair, B. van Marlen)

WGFTFB

23 April, Monday

08:00 - 09:00

Registration

09:00 - 09:30

Opening address and meeting housekeeping

09:30 - 10:30

Report from ICES (Mike Pol)

10:30 - 11:00

Body and Mind Break (Coffee)

11:00 - 12:00

Report from FAO (Petri Suuronen)

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch (on your own)

13:30 - 13:50

Summary of SGTCOD (Bent Herrmann)

13:50 - 14:10

Summary of SGELECTRA (Bob Van Marlen)

14:10 - 14:30

Consideration on Low Impact and Fuel Efficient Fishing: Interaction between Squid Jigging and Large-scale Fish Trap Fisheries in western Japan (Y. Matsushita, D. Samuda, P.Suuronen)

14:30 - 14:50

Energy efficiency analysis for Italian fishing vessels through an Energy Audit tool (E. Notti)

15:00 - 15:30

Body and Mind Break (Coffee)

15:30 - 15:50

Development of catch control devices (E. Grimaldo)

15:50 - 16:10

A Low-Cost, Underwater Self-Closing Codend to Limit Unwanted Catch (M. Pol)

16:10 - 16:40

A decade of research on the Gulf of Maine shrimp trawls to reduce finfish bycatch and small shrimps (P. He)

16:40 - 17:00

Closing

17:30 - 18:00

Official Welcome

24 April, Tuesday

09:00 - 09:15

Housekeeping issues

09:15 - 09:25

Introduction to ToR D INNOVATION

09:25 - 09:35

Introduction to ToR C ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS

09:35 - 09:45

Introduction to ToR B REDFISH

09:45 - 10:00

Introduction to ToR A ADVICE

10:30 - 11:00

Body and Mind Break (Coffee)

11:00 - 11:20

A Study of Square Mesh Codends in English Otter Trawlers (T. Catchpole)

11:20 - 11:40

Quantifying fish escape behavior through large mesh panels in trawls based on catch comparison data: model development and a case study from Skagerrak (L. Krag)

11:40 - 12:00

Investigation on escapement efficiency through a square mesh panel: effects of panel overlap with catch accumulation and of an attempt to stimulate the escape behaviour (B. Herrmann)

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch (on your own)

13:30 - 13:50

Slipping herring from purse seines – A source of unaccounted mortality or a potentially responsible way of controlling the catches? (M. Tenningen)

13:50 - 14:10

Predicting and mitigating the impact of towed gears - a case study with a clump weight (F. O'Neill)

14:10 - 14:40

Catch comparison of pulse trawls vessels and a tickler chain beam trawler (B. van Marlen)

14:40 - 15:00

Measuring sediment mobilisation by fishing gears using a multi beam echo sounder (F. O'Neill)

15:00 - 15:30

Body and Mind Break (Coffee)

15:30 - 15:50

TBD (B. Vincent and F. Theret)

15:50 - 16:50

Synthesis of International Fishing Gear Laboratories Organisation (G. Bavouzet and S. Mehault)

16:50 - 17:00

Closing

25 April, Wednesday

09:00 - 09:05

Housekeeping issues

09:05 - 10:30

Topic Group meetings

10:30 - 11:00

Body and Mind Break (Coffee)

11:00 - 12:00

Topic Group meetings

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch (on your own)

13:30 - 15:00

Topic Group meetings

15:00 - 15:30

Body and Mind Break (Coffee)

15:30 - 17:00

Topic Group meetings

15:30 - 18:30

Social Event

26 April, Thursday

09:00 - 09:05

Housekeeping issues

09:05 - 10:30

Topic Group meetings

10:30 - 11:00

Body and Mind Break (Coffee)

11:00 - 12:00

Topic Group meetings

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch (on your own)

13:30 - 15:00

Topic Group meetings

15:00 - 15:30

Body and Mind Break (Coffee)

15:30 - 17:00

Topic Group meetings

27 April, Friday

09:00 - 09:20

Summary of National Reports

09:20 - 09:50

ToR A ADVICE: Report, conclusions & recommendations

10:10 - 10:30

ToR D INNOVATION: Report, conclusions & recommendations

10:30 - 11:00

Body and Mind Break (Coffee)

11:00 - 11:20

ToR B REDFISH: Report, conclusions & recommendations

11:20 - 11:40

ToR C LIGHT:Report, conclusions & recommendations

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch (on your own)

13:30 - 14:15

ToRs for 2013

14:15 - 15:00

Suggestions for ASC theme session topics 2013

15:00 - 15:30

Body and Mind Break (Coffee)

15:30 - 15:45

Date and venue for WGFTFB 2013 meeting

15:45 - 16:00

AOB & Concluding remarks (Chair)

*Topic Groups and Associated Conveners
A. Topic Group on Incorporation of Fishing Technology Issues/Expertise into Management Advice
Conveners: Michael Pol (USA) and Dominic Rihan (EC)
B. Topic Group on Redfish Fishing Technology and Physiology
Conveners: Bent Herrmann (DK) and Pingguo He (USA)
C. Topic Group on Use of Artificial Lights in Fisheries
Conveners: Heui-chun An (KR), Mike Breen (NO), and Pingguo He (USA)
D. Topic Group on Innovation in Fishing Gear Technology
Convener: Bob Van Marlen, (Netherlands)

Agenda version date: 19 April 2012