MEDIA ADVISORY: Webinar Series to Tackle Climate-resilient Fisheries in Indonesia

(WASHINGTON – Feb. 5, 2021) As ocean waters heat and become extra acidic, fish stocks are transferring toward extra suited habitat. Nowhere is this far more apparent than in the world’s tropical zones, these types of as people that comprise almost all of Indonesia’s fishing grounds — a nation that accounts for nearly 7% of world wide fish generation. At stake is food items safety, fisher’s safety, conservation and biodiversity, together with important economic gains created by this sector. If company proceeds as typical, at the latest amounts of fishing force and costs of ocean warming, results for fisheries will possible get even worse, with 80% of the world’s shares slipping into an overfished position by the middle of the following ten years.

Over two times, this webinar sequence co-hosted by Fisheries Analysis Center – Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, IPB College and EDF will take a look at how Indonesia and other tropical producing nations can tackle weather impacts on their fisheries. It will contemplate examples of best tactics and science-based mostly techniques to addressing the unfavorable impacts of climate modify by way of fantastic fishery administration procedures, which will grow to be significantly essential as local climate change affects distribution and productiveness of stocks. Some of these administration tactics contain effective information assortment and checking methods, adaptive science-based management processes, harvest regulate regulations that modify in accordance to inventory biomass, and the consideration of broader socioeconomic and ecosystem factors (e.g., ecosystem-primarily based fishery management techniques). Make sure you sign up for us to discover extra.

WHAT: A webinar series above two days to examine the impacts of local weather alter on fisheries in Indonesia and other establishing nations with a concentration on methods and very best methods for mitigation and adaptation.

Series 1

WHEN & The place:

Collection 1 at 08:00 – 11:15 a.m. Jakarta time, Tuesday, Feb. 9

Remember to sign-up for Zoom assembly: https://s.id/WebinarCCRegD1

WHO:
Prof. Ir. R. Sjarief Widjaja, Ph.D, FRINA

Chairman of the Company for Maritime and Fisheries Investigate and Human Methods,

Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF)

Eric Schwaab, M.A

SVP, Oceans and Interim SVP, Ecosystems Environmental Protection Fund (EDF)

Prof. Dr. Rokhmin Dahuri

Chairperson of the Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Advisory Team

Dr. Tarub Bahri

Fishery Sources Officer Marine and Inland Fisheries Branch, FAO, Rome

Moderator: Dr. Luky Adrianto

Faculty of Fisheries and Maritime Sciences, IPB College

Sequence 2

WHEN & Where by:

Sequence 2 at 08:00 – 11:15 a.m. Jakarta time, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021

Remember to sign-up for Zoom assembly: https://s.id/WebinarCCRegD2

WHO:

Cisco Werner, Ph.D

Countrywide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Prof. Dr. Edvin Aldrian

Professor Meteorology & Climatology BPPT, and IPCC WG I Vice Chair

Dr. Reny Puspasari

Researcher from Fisheries Investigation Center, MMAF, Indonesia

Rod Fujita, Ph.D

Director of Analysis and Advancement, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

Putuh Suadela, S.Pi, MESM

Coordinator of Fish Assets ZEEI, Directorate Typical of Seize Fisheries of MMAF

Dr. Luky Adrianto

College of Fisheries and Marine Sciences, IPB College

Moderators:

Prof. Dr. Ngurah N. Wiadnyana Fisheries Analysis Centre, MMAF, Indonesia

Dr. Abdul Halim Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Expert