Programme Highlights
TENTATIVE PROGRAMME TUNA 2010 BANGKOK 13 - 15 September, 2010, Bangkok –Thailand
Chairpersons : Christopher D. Lischewski
Sunday, 12 September, 2010
16.00-19.00 - Registration (Centara Grand & Bangkok Convention Centre A1, Level 22)
Monday, 13 September 2010 07.30-09.00 - Registration (Centara Grand & Bangkok Convention Centre A1, Level 22)
09.00-9.45 - Opening ceremony
- Welcome address by Dr. Muhammad Ayub, Director, INFOFISH, Malaysia .
- Special address by Dr. Ibrahim Didi, The Honourable Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture, Maldives .
- Address by the Chairperson Christopher D. Lischewski, President and CEO, Bumble Bee Foods, LLC, USA . - Opening address by Dr Somying Piumsombun, Director-General, Department of Fisheries, Thailand .
Chairperson : Dr .Chanintr Chalisarapong 11.00-12.30 - RFMOs; Reviews of tuna stock status and management measures
1. Review of tuna stock status and management measures in the Indian Ocean (Alejandro Anganuzzi, Executive Secretary,Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC), Seychelles)
2. Status of tuna stocks and management challenges in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (William John Hampton,Manager, Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), New Caledonia)
3. Eastern Pacific Ocean: In-Depth Analysis on the Regional Tuna Resources, Management Measures Toward Sustainability an Current Issues (M. Hinton, Senior Scientist, Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC), USA)
4. To achieve tuna sustainability, all must engage in the RFMO process (Susan Jackson, President, International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF), USA)
12.30-13.00 - Panel Discussion and Session Review
Session II: Sectoral and Regional Reviews
14.00-15.30 1. Trade trends, issues and new barriers faced by the tuna industry (William Emerson, Senior Fishery Industry Officer and Helga Josupeit, Fishery Industry Officer, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy)
2. Tuna fishing: challenges and strategies for survival (Joe Hamby, Group Managing Director, Tri Marine Group of Comapnies, Singapore)
3. Canning industry through difficult times: Thai experience (Amornphan Aramwatananont, Vice President, Sea Value, Thailand)
4. International governance in tuna fishing (Julio Moron, Secretary General, World Tuna Purse Seine Organization (WTPO), Spain) 15.30-16.00 - 16.00-17.00 5. Tuna industry status in selected major producing countries
17.00-17.30 - Panel Discussion and Session Review
Tuesday, 14 September, 2010
Session III: Review on the Global Tuna Markets Chairperson: Christopher D. Lischewski
08.30-10.00 American Markets
- Revitalising the US and Canadian markets for shelf-stable tuna (David F Melbourne, Jr., Senior Vice President, Consumer Marketing, Bumble Bee Foods LLC, USA)
- The US market for Fresh and Frozen Tuna (Mike Walsh, Executive Vice President /COO, Orca Bay Seafood Inc., USA)
- Central and South American markets: Stimulating Demand via Effective Branding and Market Segmentation-The Cases of Costa Rica and Argentina (Dario Chemerinski, Director, International Division, Calvo Group, Brazil) 10.00-10.30 - Panel Discussion and Session Review
11.00-12.30 The European Markets - The EU markets for canned tuna: trends, market segments, potential growth and issues (Adolfo Valsecchi, CEO, MW Brands, European Seafood, France)
- Non-canned tuna products in the EU markets (Antonio Orsini, New England Seafood Intl., UK)
- Challenges for Developing Countries in Entering the EU Markets (Gerard Roessink, Senior Scientific Officer, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Netherland) 13.00-14.00 - Lunch Break Chairperson : Dr .Chanintr Chalisarapong
14.00-16.00 Asia & Pacific and Other Markets - Japanese tuna market trends (Kazuo Shima, President, Beneficiaries of the Sea Coalition, Japan)
- Retrospective and outlook of the Asia-Pacific tuna markets (Fatima Ferdouse, Chief, Trade Promotion Division, INFOFISH, Malaysia)
- Middle East markets: demand trends, market segmentation and prospects (Ziad Abdel Rahim, General Managerand Arnab Sen Gupta, Supply Chain Manager, Gulf Food Industries: California Garden, UAE)
- The development of the tuna industry in the Indian Ocean (Evert Liewes, Managing Director, Princes Tuna (Mauritius) Ltd., Mauritius)
16.00-16.30 - Panel Discussion and Session Review
16.30-17.00 -
Chairperson : Dr .Chanintr Chalisarapong
08.30-10.00 Eco-labelling schemes :
- Update on FAO eco-labelling guidelines (William Emerson, Senior Fishery Industry Officer, FAO, Italy)
- Friend of the Sea certification of seafood, fish feed, omega-3 supplements from sustainable fisheries and aquaculture (Paolo Bray, Director, Friend of the Sea, Italy)
- Earth Island Institute’s dolphin-safe label for tuna (Mark Berman, Director, International Monitoring Programme, Earth Island Institute, USA)
- Marine Stewardship Council certification of tuna fisheries to meet growing demand in the EU, USA and Japan (Bill Holden, Pacific Fisheries Manager, Marine Stewardship Council, Australia)
10.30-10.30 -
10.30-12.00 Eco-labelling and Tuna Farming:
- The role of eco-labels in sustainability of tuna fisheries (Mark Powell, Global Seafood Leader, WWF International, Switzerland)
- Tuna aquaculture – recent developments and future prospects for commercial scale bluefin and yellowfin tuna (James Kevin McElroy, Senior Research Fellow, Business School, University of Western Australia and Gavin Partridge, Aquaculture Development Unit, Challenger Institute of Technology, Australia).
12.30-12.30 - Panel Discussion and Session Review
12.30 - 13.00 - Closing
13.00 - Lunch
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