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DSCC members will be attending or monitoring the following meetings.
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2008

FAO Technical Consultation on International Guidelines for the Management of Deep-Sea Fisheries in the High Seas, 25 - 29 August, Rome

NAFO Annual Meeting, 22 - 26 September, Vigo, Spain

IUCN World Conservation Congress, October 5-14, Barcelona, Spain

SPRFMO, 6th negotiating session, 6 - 10 October, Canberra, Australia

Northwest Pacific negotiating session, 14 - 18 October, Tokyo

CCAMLR (Commission and Scientific Committee), 27 October -7 November, Hobart, Australia

NEAFC Annual Meeting, 10-14 November

London (Dumping) Convention, November, London, UK

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Kristina M. Gjerde, J.D.

Kristina M. Gjerde is high seas policy advisor to IUCN - the World Conservation Union.

A graduate of New York University School of Law and past Marine Policy Fellow of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Gjerde is a recognized expert in the legal aspects of marine biodiversity conservation. She currently focuses on the deep oceans and high seas beyond national jurisdiction.

In 2003, Gjerde received a three-year Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation to promote an improved legal regime for the oceans beyond national jurisdiction. Her work as high seas policy advisor includes representing IUCN (an intergovernmental organization whose members include 82 governments, 111 government agencies and 836 non-governmental organizations) at major global and regional meetings, such as the United Nations, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, and the Food and Agriculture Organization's Committee on Fisheries.
More Information
• Kristina Gjerde is speaking on 19 April at a lunch time briefing at the European Parliament, Brussels.
Contact: Mirella von Lindenfels
Tel: +44 20 88825041

• IUCN's website.

• Deep-Sea Fisheries: A New Management Challenge for the FAO, IUCN Global Marine Programme.




Gjerde has also authored or co-authored a wide variety of publications and reports. Most recently she has been Guest Editor (together with David Freestone, Deputy General Counsel of the World Bank) for a special issue of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law on Deep Sea Fisheries and the Conservation of Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction.


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