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Day 1 - Tuesday, 9 Oct.

Day 2 - Wednesday, 10 Oct.

Day 3 - Thursday, 11 Oct.

Day 4 - Friday, 12 Oct.

Day 5 - Saturday, 13 Oct.

Day 1	Tuesday 09, October 2001
9:00 - 10:00	Registration
10:00 - 11:00	Inaugural Session
	Chair:	Prof. C.R. Muthukrishnan, Deputy Director, IIT Madras, India
10:00 - 10:10	Welcome	Prof. R. Rajagopalan,Director,IOI (India)
10:10 - 10:25	Introduction to the Conference	Dr. John Kurien,Fellow, Centre for Development Studies, India and Founder Member, ICSF
10:25 - 10:35	Presidential Remarks	Prof. C.R. Muthukrishnan, Deputy Director, IIT Madras, India
10:35 - 10:50	Inaugural Address	Ms. Nita Chowdhury, Chairperson, Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) and Joint Secretary, Dept. of Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India
10:50 - 10:55	Message to the Conference	Ambassador Satya N. Nandan, Secretary General, International Seabed Authority, Jamaica (to be read out)
10:55 - 11:00	Vote of Thanks	Ms. Nalini Nayak, Founder Member, ICSF, India
11:00 - 11:15	Tea Break
11:15 - 12:15	Keynote Session
	Chair	Mr. V. Vivekanandan, Chief Executive, South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies (SIFFS), India and Founder Member, ICSF
11:15 - 11:45	Keynote Address: Ocean Governance and the Fishing Village	Prof. Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Founder and Honorary Chairperson, IOI (Address to be read out by Prof. R. Rajagopalan, Director, IOI India)
11:45 - 12:30	Presentation: Indian Ocean Fishing Communities: Sculpting a Vision	Mr. Maizan Hassan Maniku, Former Director of Fisheries Research, Maldives
12:30 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 17:30	Setting the Scene
Session 1	Chair:	Mr. Harekrishna Debnath, Chairperson, National Fishworkers Forum, India
14:30 - 15:00	Excerpts from Indian Ocean 2001: a CD on fisheries in Indian Ocean countries	Ms. Ramya R, ICSF,India,and Mr. Satish Babu, InApp,US
15:00 - 15:15	Discussion
Session 2	Chair:	Dr. Mucai Muchiri, Head, Fisheries Department, Moi University, Kenya
15:15 - 15:35	Ecosystem Considerations for Managing Fisheries in the Indian Ocean	Dr. E. Vivekanandan, Senior Scientist, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), India
15:35 - 15:55	International Instruments for Managing Fisheries in the Indian Ocean	Mr. Rolf Willmann, Senior Fisheries Planning Officer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome
15:55 - 16: 15	Discussion
16.15 - 16:30	Tea Break
Session 3	Chair:	Mr. Joseph Rondolph Payet, Resource Manager, Seychelles Fishing Authority, Seychelles
16:30 - 16:50	IOR-ARC Fisheries Programme for the Indian Ocean	Mr.D.Dusoruth, Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Co-operation (IOR-ARC)
16:50 - 17:10	Fisheries Policy of the Southern African Development Community in the Indian Ocean Region	Mr. Simeao Lopes, Director, Instituto de desenvolvimento de Pesca de Pequena escala (IDPPE), Mozambique
17:10 - 17:30	Discussion