SPRFMO Participation at STRONG High Seas Project ABNJ Workshop

The SPRFMO Executive Secretary, Dr Sebasti n Rodr guez, participated at the Joint Workshop Science for solutions: bringing stakeholders together to improve ocean planning and governance of ABNJ in the Southeast Pacific, organised by the Secretariat of the Comisi n Permanente del Pac fico Sur (CPPS), the ABNJ Deep Seas project and the STRONG High Seas ( Strengthening Regional Ocean Governance for the High Seas ), between 13 and 15 March, in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

This workshop was part of a series of workshops organised under the ABNJ Deep Seas and STRONG High Seas projects in the Southeast Pacific region, bringing together stakeholders within the region to discuss the current status and challenges for global and regional ocean governance, foster exchange and build new networks. This workshop will be the closing workshop of the ABNJ Deep Seas project and the second dialogue workshop of the STRONG High Seas project.

The new STRONG High Seas Project Report provides an overview of a range of ongoing initiatives to improve governance of ABNJ at the regional level, and is now available here: https://www.prog-ocean.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/STRONG-HS_Lessons-Learnt-Report.pdf