Dave Japp

Dave Japp is Director of a neutral and independent service organisation (Capricorn Fisheries Monitoring), working for all sectors of the fishing industry including the state authority (MCM), the fishing industry, international organisations and numerous other groups. He was previously employed at the Sea Fisheries Research Institute from 1988 to 1997 as a biologist and manager and at the time he left this institution was head of the offshore resources section (demersal and pelagic stocks). His role at SFRI (now Marine and Coastal Management, MCM) was primarily management, biology and resource assessment and he was responsible for the submission of management advice on hake and other stocks. He was also responsible for, planned and led, many demersal hake-directed biomass surveys in the period employed at SFRI and conducted his thesis research on demersal
longlining and kingklip Genypterus capensis stocks.

Mr. Japp has an intimate knowledge of global fisheries, fishing and gears deployed across most fishing sectors. Further he manages a large domestic and regional Observer programme and works closley with NGOs, management authorities and fishers that includes mitigation methods to reduce negative fisheries impacts. He is also active in the East African region specifically on the regional fisheries management projects (SWIOFP, KCDP and MACEMP) and is also an MSC assessor (ecosystems and management) for South African Hake and several other international
fisheries.

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