Subject: Re: Addresses for Dept. Fisheries

From: [email-masked] (TimAdams)
Date: 23 Jun 1996 19:33:07 -0400

Addresses for Pacific Island government fisheries departments (and several
other countries besides) can be obtained from the South Pacific
Commission's directory of addresses useful to Pacific Island fisheries
workers. If this is of any interest, contact Jean-Paul Gaudechoux, SPC's
Fisheries Information Officer ([email-masked]) for a copy. Unfortunately
it is only available in hard copy at present.

Addresses for Commonwealth fisheries departments are in a directory
compiled by Semisi Fakahau, Senior Project Officer at the Commonwealth
Secretariat in London. Sorry I don't have an email or even a postal
address right here, but it is a fairly well-known organisation :-)

One word of warning. Unsolicited requests for employment are usually
received less-than-enthusiastically by these departments, unless you just
happen to hit them at a time when a vacancy is imminent. The proportion of
vacancies that can be filled by non-locals is not large anyway,
particularly when overseas recruitment fares have to be paid. If you are
not hoping for an expatriate lifestyle then be sure to make it clear that
you are prepared to work for the local salary, and even to make your own
way to the country, since these are major stumbling blocks to employing
non-locals (particularly inexperienced non-locals) in line positions.

If you are already an expert, wanting expert remuneration, fully funded
expatriate positions will be advertised anyway in the country which is
putting up the money (eg Australia).

By the way, very few Pacific Island fisheries departments have email
facilities, since there are no Internet service providers in most Pacific
Island countries. Those who have email do it on a manually-mediated
dial-up system via PeaceSat. The Forum Fisheries Agency (try
[email-masked]) or South Pacific Commission (try [email-masked]) are
currently focal points for organising PeaceSat e-mail to Pacific Island
fisheries departments, and will tell you which departments are currently
contactable.

Tim Adams
Fisheries Resource Adviser
South Pacific Commission