Fisheries Innovations Conference; Rotterdam November 6 – 7 2009

A two day conference for fishermen, policy makers and scientists on fisheries innovations.
Draft programme as of 5 November 2009


Programme


Day 1  (November 6)

Chaired by: Mr. Niko Wijnolst – President Dutch Maritime Network,
member Fisheries Innovation Platform


13:00 Arrival and registration
13:30 Opening and introduction
Mr. Niko Wijnolst – President Dutch Maritime Network
13:40 Keynote speaker
Policies on fisheries innovations in the Netherlands
Mr. Albert Vermuë – Director of Fisheries,
Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
14:00 Keynote speaker
Fisheries innovation in the EU, goals and means of the EFF
Mr. Ernesto Peñas Lado – Director North Sea, DG MARE,
European Commission
14:30 Coffee break harvest of ideas
15:00 Plenary discussions moderated by Maarten Mens – Dutch Fish Product Board
Theme 1: Policies on fisheries innovation in the member states
Theme 2: The role of research in fisheries innovation
Theme 3: Fishermen initiatives
  • Brief summary of policies per country
    Representatives of the ministries
  • Show case of a Danish research project
    Mrs. Lotte Kindt-Larsen – Technical University of Denmark
17:30 Closing statement & preview into day 2: fishermen’s showcases
Mr. Niko Wijnolst – Dutch Maritime Network
18:00 Drinks & Diner


Day 2  (November 7)

Chaired by Mr. Torgeir Edvardsen – SINTEF


09:00 Opening
Torgeir Edvardsen – SINTEF
09:05 The EFTP initiative
Dag Standal – SINTEF
Fishermen initiatives
Title Speaker
09:20
  1. Conservation Credits - a matrix of
    measures to reduce discards
  2. Innovations on a new build fishing vessel
  3. The Green Fleet
  4. Fishing long lines without bait
 Mike Park (UK)

Pieter Louwe van Slooten (NL)
Marnix Verleene (BE)
Sam Rush (UK)
10:40 Coffee break
11:00
  1. The next generation long line vessel –
    an environmental winner
  2. Attaching rollers to the beam trawl shoes
  3. Showcase pulse trawl
  4. Showcase sumwing
  5. Who is to blame? The hydrorig
 Kjetil Holmeset (NO)

Dirk Sander (GER)
Cor Daalder (NL)
Harmen Klein Woolthuis (NL)
Klaas-Jelle Koffeman (NL)
12:30 Lunch break
13:30
  1. Reducing discards in beam trawl fisheries
  2. Outrigging
  3. HOVERCRAN - HOVERing pulse trawl
    for selective CRANgon fishery
  4. Thinking out of the box, forget historical
    boundaries
Simon Armstrong (UK)
Erik Ellen (NL)
Manfred Van Elslande (BE)

Sytse Ybema (NO)
15:00 Discussion & Closing statement
Mr. Torgeir Edvardson – SINTEF
15:15 Drinks

The Fisheries Innovation Platform (FIP) works in close cooperation with the international maritime exhibition Europort 2009. See the press announcement (pdf) about the cooperation.