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MONDAY 23 September 2013
Day 1: Session 1 (Opening session)
Welcome and opening remarks by the Chair of the BCC Ecosystem Advisory Council – Dr Johann Augustyn
Opening address by Honourable Bernhard Esau, Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Namibia
Keynote address
Name of Presenter
Name of Presentation
Name of file (Abstract)
Name of file
(presentation)
Dr Paul Holthus, Executive
Director of the World
Ocean Council
Ocean industry leadership and
collaboration in achieving the
optimal use of marine
resources
Paul Holthus
Paul Holthus
Dr Bjorn Serigstad,
Environmental specialist
from the Centre for
Development
Cooperation in Fisheries
(CDFC) at the Institute of
Marine Research, Bergen,
Norway
Environmental baseline studies
and monitoring as a platform
for marine management
Session 1 (b)
Dr Hashali Hamukuaya,
BCC Executive Secretary
Updates on BCC milestones
Dr Quentin Espey, BCC
Ecosystems Coordinator
From Strategic Action
Programme Implementation to
Convention Implementation
Plan for the BCC
Quentin Espey
Dr Ekkehard
Klingelhoeffer, University
of Namibia
Progress in the implementation
of the BCC Training and
Capacity Development
initiatives
Ekkehard Klingel
Nico Willemse, Senior
Project Manager of the
BCLME SAP Imp project
Progress and status of the
BCLME Strategic Action
Programme Implementation
(SAP Imp) project
Nico Willemse
Session 2 (a)
Nico Willemse
Dave Boyer (for Sandy
Davies), Nordenfjeldske
Development Services
(NFDS)
An update on the process and
outcomes of the 2013 review of
the BCC’s Transboundary
Diagnostic Analysis (TDA),
Strategic Action Programme (SA)
and Implementation Plan (IP)
documents
Boyer TDA SAP
Nico Willemse
Results of the BCC SEA Scoping
study
Dave Boyer, International
Consultant
ACP Fish II project: Horse
mackerel transboundary
management in the BCLME
region.
Dave Boyer
Johann Augustyn, Chair of
the BCC Ecosystem
Advisory Committee
Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries
(EAF) Institutional Arrangements
Johann Augustyn EAF
Deon Louw, Ministry of
Fisheries and Marine
Resources, Namibia
Detecting phytoplankton
dynamics in the central Benguela
Current upwelling ecosystem off
Namibia by using in situ
chlorophyll-a measurements
Deon Louw
Gonçalo Murta (for
Bronwen Currie)
Project WQP/09/04: Assess the
impacts of Harmful Algal Blooms
(HABs) on the inshore
environment
Bronwen Currie
Session 2 (b)
TUESDAY 24 September 2013
Session 3 (a)
Dr Nele Tim, Insitute for
Coastal Research,
Germany
Influence of atmospheric
circulation and large-scale
climate patterns on the
Namibian upwelling system:
analysis of atmosphere-ocean
simulations
Nele Tim
Dr Anja Eggert, Institute
for Baltic Sea Research,
Warnemünde, Germany
Dynamics of the oxygen
minimum zone on the Namibian
shelf: a model perspective
Eggert
Dr Kay Emeis, Centre for
Marine Tropical Ecology,
Bremen, Germany
Nutrient and CO2 dynamics in
the northern Benguela
Kay Emeis
Dr Werner Ekau, Centre
for Marine Tropical
Ecology, Bremen,
Germany
Physiological characteristic of
plankton organisms and their
role for ecosystem functioning.
Results from GENUS 1 and II
Ekau
Anja van der Plas,
Ministry of Fisheries and
Marine Resources,
Namibia
Coastal Monitoring Network and
variability in the Lüderitz
Upwelling Cell – Orange River
Cone (LUCORC) area
Anja van der Plas
Rodney Braby, NACOMA
project, Swakopmund,
Namibia
An overview of the Namibian
Coast Conservation and
Management project
Rod Braby
Dr Ben van Zyl, SEAFO
Secretariat, Swakopmund,
Namibia
An overview of the South East
Atlantic Fisheries Organisation
(SEAFO) and its activities
Ben van Zyl
Dr Hashali Hamukuaya
Introduction to the BCC Climate
Change project and the BCC
Dr Nkosi Luyeye, Institute
for the Development of
Artisanal Fisheries, Angola
EAF – Ecological Risk Assessment
(ERA) in Angola
Johannes Iitembu,
Ministry of Fisheries and
Marine Resources,
Namibia
EAF – Ecological Risk
Assessment (ERA) in Namibia
Session 3 (b)
JA Iitembu
Craig Smith, Department
Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA)
of Agriculture, Forestry
in South Africa
and Fisheries, South Africa
Pinehas Auene, Ministry
of Works and Transport,
Namibia
Oil Spill Risk Assessment (OSRA)
and Sensitivity Mapping
Session 4(a)
Dave Russell, Consultant
to the Confederation of
Namibian Fishing
Key issues and possible impacts
of seismic activities on tunas and
Dave Russell
Associations
tuna-like species
G Schneider & Aphary
Muyongo, Ministry of
Mines and Energy,
Namibia
Hydrocarbon exploration and
albacore tuna fisheries – a classic
example for the role of the BCC
in joint and transboundary
management of the BCLME
Marine mining sector
Short presentations by the
Namibian phosphate industry,
Minstry of Fisheries and Marine
Resources and NACOMA
Session 4 (b)
Panel discussion
WEDNESDAY 25 September 2013
Session 5 (a)
Filomena vaz Velho,
Instituto Nacional de
Investigação Pesqueira
(INIP), Angola
Early life history and stock
identity of horse mackerel
species
Filomena vaz Velho
Dr Dawit Yemane,
Department of
Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries, South Africa
Environmental links to pelagic
fish life cycles, abundance and
distribution: determining
governing factors
Dawit Yemane
Dr Janet Coetzee,
Department of
Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries, South Africa
Acoustic survey methods and
associated errors
Janet Coetzee 1
Development of acoustic
methodology for zooplankton
biomass assessment
Janet Coetzee 2
Session 5 (b)
Dr Janet Coetzee,
Department of
Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries, South Africa
Silvia Nsiangango,
Instituto Nacional de
Investigação Pesqueira
(INIP), Angola
Stock definition and interactions
between demersal fish off
Angola
Silvi Nsiangoango
Dr Kumbi Kilongo,
Instituto Nacional de
Investigação Pesqueira
(INIP), Angola
Interactions between demersal
stocks in Angola
Kumbi Kilongo
Marco Worship,
Department of
Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries, South Africa
Development of a continuous
plankton recorder sister survey
in the BCLME
Verheye and Worship
Dr Toufiek Samaai,
Department of
Environmental Affairs,
South Africa
A spatial assessment of the
BCLME region
Toufiek Samaai
Dr Newi Makhado,
Department of
Environmental Affairs,
South Africa
Wide scale changes in landbreeding top predator
populations in the BCLME
Makhado et al
Dr Marek Lipinski, on
behalf of Tore Stromme
Last straw which did not break
the camel’s back: Dr Fridtjof
Nansen cruise 2013 and
background to the
transboundary question for
hakes
Marek Lipinski
Gonçalo Murta, Ministry
of Fisheries and Marine
Resources, Namibia
Project EAF/09/08: The impacts
of H2S and low oxygen on
inshore marine species
Bronwyn Currie EAF
Dr Simon Elwen,
Namibian Dolphin Project
The impact of seismic surveys,
other human noise and offshore
mining on cetaceans
Session 6 (a)
Session 6 (b)
THURSDAY 26 September 2013
Session 7 (a)
Steve Kirkman,
Department of
Environmental Affairs,
South Africa
Nansclim synthesis: Climate
effects on biodiversity,
abundance and distribution of
marine organisms in the
Benguela
Steve Kirkman
Paul Kainge, Ministry of
Fisheries and Marine
Resources, Namibia
ECOFISH 2: Hake catchability:
any relation to environmental
parameters in Namibian waters
Kainge et al
Dr Kai Wieland
ECOFISH 3: Environmental
effects on hake catchability in
the South African west coast
survey
Kai Wieland
Johannes Iitembu,
Ministry of Fisheries and
Marine Resources,
Namibia
ECOFISH 4: Trophic levels and
stable isotopes
JA Iitembu 2
Marek Lipinski, for Prof
Conrad Matthee
ECOFISH 5: Genetics
Marek Lipinski 2
Dr Barbara Paterson,
Namibia Nature
Foundation
ECOFISH 6: Namibian hake
fishery: results and analysis
Barbara Paterson
John Kathena, Ministry of
Fisheries and Marine
Resources, Namibia
ECOFISH 7: Hake assessment
model benchmark
John Kathena
Dr Teunis Jansen, DTU,
Denmark
ECOFISH 8: Transboundary hake
Jansen
Dr Fritz Köster, DTU,
Denmark
ECOFISH 9: ECOFISH progress
and future
Koster et al
Session 7 (b)
Session 8
Final observations and closure of the Annual Science Forum by the BCC Ecosystems Coordinator, Dr
Quentin Espey