8:00-9:00am	Registrations
9:00-9:15	Powhiri
9:15	Official Opening by Dame Cath Tizard
9:25	Introduction Welcome from organisers and housekeeping
Preferred futures Ecosystem Approaches to Management of Human Impacts on the Marine Environment
9:45am	Paul Dayton, Scripps Institution of Oceanography - Some impacts of fishing on the environment
10:30-11:00am	Tea/coffee
11:00-11:45am	Ilarion Merculieff, Bering Sea Coastal Coalition - New Paradigms for Marine Ecosystem Research and Management: The Importance of Other Worldviews In Seeking Answers.
11:45-12.30pm	Charlotte de Fontaubert and Shannon Kearns,experts in international marine law, Washington D.C. - Managing Marine Resources Under International Law
12:30-1:30pm	Lunch - provided at the Plaza International
1:30-3:00	Aspirations for the Future: Preferred Futures Customary Maori Commercial aspirations Recreational Science Biodiversity Environmental Discussion from the floor
3:00-3:30	Tea/coffee
3:30-5:15	Workshops: Preferred Futures for the Marine Environment and Ecosystem Management Personal Preferred futures Group discussion of preferred futures and finding common threads
6.00-7.30	Reception: Hosted by the Speaker of the House, Right Honourable Doug Kidd, Grand Hall, Parliament Buildings

Thursday February 12th, 1998

Present Reality

State of the Marine Environment/Indicators

12:30-1:30	Lunch - Delegates own arrangements
Parallel Presentation Sessions
Law and Policy
1:30-2:00pm	Ecosystem Management Principles: Inside and outside NZ's 12 nautical mile limit Barry Weeber - Royal Forest and Bird Protection Societ
2:00-2:30pm	Conservation Services Levies and the management of Protected Species By-catch in New Zealand Fisheries Mike Donoghue - External Relations Divisions, Department of Conservation
2:30-3:00pm	The concept of straddling stocks and its application to the CCAMLR region Jeanette Johanson-IASOS and Antarctic CRC, University of Tasmania (to be confirmed)
3:00-3:30pm	Discussion from the floor

Context & Management
1:30-2:00pm	Fisheries Production, Trade and Environmental Management: A Review of relations between the European Union and New Zealand Kwame Mfodwo, Environment and Management Programme, University of Waikato
2:00-2:30pm	New Zealand Fur Seals: treasure, resource and vermin Chris Lalas - Sanford South Island Ltd and Corey J. A. Bradshaw - Department of Zoology, University of Otago
2:30-3:00pm	Where there's mullock there's gold: Long term changes in the distribution of biogenic reefs (mullock) and oysters (gold) in Foveaux Strait caused by dredging for oysters John Cranfield, Keith Michael and Milton Roderique - NIWA
3:00-3:30pm	Discussion from the Floor
Marine Protected Areas
1:30-2:00pm	Oceans Management: Lessons from the Great Barrier Reef Ian McPhail, - Chair, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
2:00-2:30pm	Developing a network of Marine Reserves for New Zealand Kathy Walls - Northern Regional Office, Department of Conservation
2:30-3:00pm	A system of marine reserves: the opportunity and the obligation. Bill Ballantine - Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland
3:00-3:30pm	Discussion from the Floor
3:0-4:00pm	Tea/coffee
4:00-5:30pm	Workshops Fishing & Impacts Invasive Species Pollution and Marpol Coastal Management and the RMA Research, SER and Indicators Protected Species and Ecosystems Institutional Arrangements
Conference Dinner at the Plaza International Hotel

Friday 13 February 1998

Closing the Gap

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How do we get there?

8:30-9:10am	Shane Jones,Muriwhenua iwi, Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commissioner-Maori, the industry, and fishing
9.10-9.30am	Key Issues from Workshops on Present Reality
Community & Expert Involvement in Ocean & Coastal Management
9:30-9:55am	Community and Expert Involvement in Marine and Coastal Management C. Bell, T. Flaherty and D. M. Tarte
9:55-10:20am	'Kia ora tonu te 'mauri' o nga moana o Te Taitokerau mo nga Uri Whakatupu' - To maintain and enhance the life-force of the seas of Northland for future generations Maiki Marks, Secretary, policy and planning, Kororareka Marae Society Incorporated
10:20-10:50am	Tea/coffee
10:50-11:15am	Restoration of the Port Waikato sand dunes: a community based rehabilitation project H. Spence, G. Lower, J. Dahm and E. O'Callaghan
11:15-11:40am	Neighbourhood Biology: "on line" and "in the field" services about our local ecology Mary Gardner
11:40-12:05pm	Future Options for the Department of Conservation in Conserving New Zealands Marine Environment Jim Nicolson, Conservation Policy Division, Department of Conservation
12:05-12:25pm	Discussion from the floor
12:25-1:25pm	Lunch - Delegates' own arrangements
Solutions and way forward
1:25-1:40pm	Opportunities and responsibilities Pat Helm, Policy Advisor, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
1:40-1:55pm	Issues for the Future Cath Wallace - School of Business and Public Management, Victoria University of Wellington
1:55- 2:15	Opportunities and Responsibilities - to be confirmed
2:15-3:15pm	Panel 1: Information needs, Management Scales and sizes
3:15-3:45pm	Tea/coffee
3:45-4:45	Panel 2: Management needs: Institutions and instruments, Community Involvement and pathways to the future
4:45-5:15pm	Close of Conference - Where is the Common Ground and the Route to Preferred Futures? Brief summing up of messages, themes, constraints and options

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