Environmental Monitoring and Governance in the East Asian Hydrosphere

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UNU-ORI-Iwate International Conference

Man and the Ocean

I. Approaches towards Sustainable Fisheries

II.
Changes in Marine environment

III.
Future challenges

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28 July 2006, UN House, Tokyo

09:00-09:30       Registration and document delivery

 

Opening Session

Chair: Dr. Fukuya Iino, United Nations University (UNU)
09:30-09:40       Opening Remarks
                        Prof. Hans van Ginkel, UNU

09:40-09:50       Welcome message

                        Dr. Syun-ichi Kamimura, Treasurer of Iwate Prefectural Government

09:50-10:00       Welcome message

                        Prof. Makoto Terazaki, Ocean Research Institute (ORI), University of Tokyo

  

Keynote Speech

10:00-10:40       The ORI-Iwate Prefecture's international marine environment research: An

approach towards sustainable fisheries off the Sanriku

Prof. Nobuyuki Miyazaki, ORI, University of Tokyo

 

10:40-10:55       Coffee Break

 

Working Session 1 –Approaches towards Sustainable Fisheries

Chair: Prof. Yasuhiko Naito, National Polar Research Institute

10:55-11:35      Keynote Speech

Life-cycle portfolios in marine fishes                    

Prof. David H. Secor, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Center for Environmental Science, University of Maryland

11:35-12:05       Marine debris distribution and substance of ghost-fishing on the continental slope off Iwate Prefecture estimated from bottom trawl survey

Dr. Tomoaki Goto, Iwate Fisheries Technology Center, Japan

 

12:05-12:35       To investigate the post-release mortality of hatchery-reared juveniles: Review by simulated fish-releasing tests in salt pond mesocosm

Mr. Daisuke Shimizu, National Center for Stock Enhancement, Fisheries Research Agency, Japan

     

12:35-13:45      Lunch

 

Working Session 2- Changes in Marine environment

Chair: Prof. Nobuyuki Miyazaki, ORI

 

13:45-14:25       Keynote Speech

Ecosystem impacts of ocean-climate regime shifts in the North Pacific

                        Prof. Andrew Trites, University of British Colombia, Canada

 

14:25-14:55       Long term variation of planktonic ecosystem in the Kuroshio current in relation to climate change

Dr. Kaoru Nakata, Incorporated Administrative Agency, Fisheries Research Agency

 

 14:55-15:25      Overview of life history of Acipenser sinensis and its conservation

                        Dr. Qiwei Wei, Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute, China

 

15:25-15:40       Coffee Break

 

Working Session 3- Future challenges

Chair: Dr. Juha Uitto, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

 

15:40-16:20       Keynote Speech

Tagging of Pacific Pelagics: The use of electronic tags to assess the habitat utilization of marine vertebrates

Prof. Dan Costa, University of California, Santa Cruz

 

16:20-16:50       UNEP NOWPAP scientific activities

Dr. Jeung Sook Park, NOWPAP RCU Busan Office, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

 

 16:50-17:45       Discussion

 

17:45-18:10       Poster Session


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