IFET 2002 will be held in Wellington, New Zealand, August 19 to 22, 2002. The conference will provide opportunities to debate and assess a wide variety of aspects of future fisheries management in the global economy. Future paths for rights-based fishing, including resolution of customary fishing issues by this means, and the increasing emphasis on rules-based trade reform, including market access issues such as ecolabeling, will provide the conference’s focal issues. The expansion of regional approaches to high seas fisheries, and the “ecosystem management” “oceans policy” approaches currently in development, provide the context.
A session on aquaculture will enable discussions on allocation and management of rights of access to coastal space to aquaculture and competing users; defining “sustainability” in relation to aquaculture; and the scope for aquaculture as a sustainable, productive alternative to capture fisheries for coastal communities.
In addition to the normal sessions on aquaculture and theoretical and empirical bio-economic modeling which form the basis of many of IIFET’s standard conference topics, the following themes will be presented which will encourage a pacific flavor in the global fisheries context:
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•Future paths for rights-based fisheries management: co-management, devolution, and beyond
•International seafood trade: rules-based reform
•Economic solutions to customary, aboriginal, and traditional fishing rights issues
•Fisheries management through Regional Fisheries Organizations
•Marine resources for recreation and tourism
•Ecosystem and oceans policy approaches to fisheries management
Participants will include academics, industry leaders, and government decision-makers, who may or may not have specific fisheries interests but whose perspectives and creativity can contribute to the discussion on these natural resource management and international trade issues.
Economists, biologists, ecologists, legal scholars, food scientists, historians, social scientists, resource users, resource and environmental managers and planners, fish traders, food distributors, and marketers are encouraged to participate. Contributions from this variety of disciplines will broaden thinking, help resolve troublesome anomalies and, perhaps, point to both new questions and new ways to address old ones.
Deadlines
February 15, 2002: Abstract submissions
April 1, 2002: Acceptance decisions sent to authors
April 19, 2002: Submissions of complete papers for “Best Student Paper Award”
August 21, 2002: Final papers for inclusion in proceedings (camera-ready hard copy and diskette): conference registration desk, 5:00 p.m.
Registration
Registration fees will range from US$395 to $460, depending on time of registration and IIFET membership status, with special lower fees available to students. Registration fees cover attendance at all conference sessions August 19 to 22, four lunches, reception, morning and afternoon tea and coffee, and conference proceedings (published after the conference).
For more information, visit the IIFET2002 website at <www.deloitte.co.nz/default.cfm?pageID=2845>. Or contact one of the following:
IIFET 2002 Conference Organizer
Bruce Shallard and Associates
PO Box 27409
Wellington, New Zealand
Phone: 64-4-389-3487
Fax: 64-4-389-3457
Email: bruce.shallard@xtra.co.nz
IIFET Secretariat
Oregon State University
Dept. of Ag. and Resource Economics
Corvallis, OR 97331-3601, USA
Phone: 1-541-737-1414
Fax: 1-541-737-2563
Email: Ann.L.Shriver@orst.edu
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