SEAFDEC Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center

SEAFDEC Secretariat in collaboration with Departments, namely Inland Fishery Resources Development and Management Department (IFRDMD) and Aquaculture Department (AQD), organized the Project Planning Meeting to notify officially to the Member Countries on the project “Enhancing Sustainable Utilization and Management Scheme of Tropical Anguillid Eel Resources in Southeast Asia.” The one-day meeting was organized in Bangkok, Thailand on 4 August 2017.

SEAFDEC convened a meeting on 3 August, 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand to discuss the “Review of Japanese Trust Fund VI Projects and Consideration of Japanese Trust Fund VII Projects.” The Meeting was attended by more than 25 officials of the SEAFDEC Secretariat TD, MFRD, AQD, MFRDMD, and IFRDMD. In this occasion, the new SEAFDEC Council Director for Japan Mr. Shingo …

Since 2013, the SEAFDEC-Sweden Project has made effort in strengthening cooperation among countries bordering the Gulf of Thailand (Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Viet Nam), with emphasis on the integration of fisheries and habitat management, managing fishing capacity, monitoring catch landings across boundaries, and combating illegal and destructive fishing for long-term utilization of the coastal and marine fisheries resources in the …

A survey team led by SEAFDEC/IFRDMD and the Secretariat in collaboration with the Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) carried out a field survey on anguillid eel farming and industry in Tuguegarao, Northern Luzon and outskirt of Metro Manila, Philippines on 14-18 July 2017. This survey is a part of the project on “Enhancement of Sustainability of Catadromous …

SEAFDEC Secretariat represented by the Deputy Secretary-General Dr. Kaoru Ishii and the Policy and Program Coordinator Dr. Somboon Siriraksophon attended the Twenty-ninth Meeting of the Animal Committee of CITES in Geneva, Switzerland on 18-22 July 2017. During the plenary session of the Meeting, Dr. Ishii announced launching of the new SEAFDEC project funded by the Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF) entitled “Enhancing …