PROGRAM

"SUSTAINABILITY OF LOCAL FISHING ARTS AND THE PROMOTION OF A SAFER SEA FOR CETACEANS"

SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2011

10:00 Registration of participants and morning coffee

10:30 Opening session

• Mayor of Figueira da Foz, Dr. João Ataíde
• First Secretary of the Norwegian Embassy, Mr. David Jourdan
• Coordinator of the MFEEE National Unit, Dr. António Chaves
• Pró-Reitor da Universidade do Minho, Prof. Doutor Vasco Teixeira
• Captaincy of Figueira da Foz Harbour, Capitão de Fragata Rui Filipe Amado
• Representative of CentroLitoral OP, Mr. António Miguel Lé
• Representative of VianaPesca OP, Mr. Portela Rosa
• Assistant director of General Directorate of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Dr. Teresa Coelho

11.30 "The Safesea project"

12:30 Lunch break

14:00 Safesea team

• Evolution of cetacean bycatch in the North of Portugal 2000-2010
• Distribution and abundance of cetaceans
• Evaluation of interaction between fisheries and cetaceans
• Essays to reduce the cetacean bycatch

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 Safesea Team

• Monitoring of strandings in the Algarve and interaction of small cetaceans with purse-seine fishery
• Harbour porpoise - Conservation state in portuguese continental waters

18:00 Conclusions

SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2011

9:30 Registration of participants and morning coffee

10:00 Alfredo López (CEMMA – Galicia): "First results of the Life-Indemares campaigns on the northern Iberian Peninsula"

10:30 Angela Llavona (CEMMA – Galicia): "Conservation state of harbour porpoise in the north of the Iberian Peninsula"

11:00 Fiona Read (Univ. Aberdeen/IEO Vigo/IIM Vigo): Life History data from harbour porpoise stranded in the Iberian Peninsula

11:30 Simone Panigada (Tethys Research Institute): Monitoring cetaceans populations through aerial surveys in the mediterranean sea

12:00 José Cedeira (CEMMA – Galicia): "Thunnus survey: The cetaceans from the skipjac tuna survey"

12:30 Lunch Break

14:00 Paula Mendez (Univ. La Rochelle/CEMMA/Univ. Minho): "Long term ecological segregation among the NW Iberian Peninsula odontocete species as evidence using ecological tracers"

14:30 Sabine Goetz (Univ. Aberdeen, IEO Vigo): "Evaluation of fisheries-cetaceans interactions in Galicia"

15:00 James Turner (Fumunda Marine): "Pingers; A Global Review Of Scientific Trials"

15:30 Pablo Bordino (AquaMarina - CECIM): "Field testing of experimental gillnets to mitigate the bycatch of Franciscana dolphins in Argentina"

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 Marina Sequeira (ICNB): "Protected Marine Areas = effective protection of cetacean populations?"

17:00 Maÿlis Saliva (ACCOBAMS): "ACCOBAMS: The importance of this agreement and its activities"

17:30 Closing session

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