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Based on FAO’s definition, illegal fishing is “fishing in contravention of the laws and regulations of a country or an international agreement”. The declining fish stocks may be pushing the fishers to operate illegal fishing within and beyond their EEZ. It is widely accepted that illegal fishing is considered a major problem for future global food security, driven by substantial world population growth, continuously increasing demand for fish protein, even with large numbers of the world’s fish stocks are currently being depleted.
The situation is similarly happening in every region in the world including the Southeast Asian region which is currently responsible for one-fourth of the global marine fish production contributing about 14 million tons of fish products. It has been remarkably shown that the increasing demand for fish products as well as rapid growth of fishing capacity and development of modernization in fishing technologies and practices resulted in the over-exploitation of fisheries resources in the Southeast Asia. Nonetheless, the demand for fish by the existing fisheries industries is still increasing, which in a way leads to the increased number of fishers and vessels, and intensity of fishing aiming to meet the soaring demand. This in turn, has set off the practice of illegal fishing both inside and outside the Southeast Asian waters.
This project provides and initiates set of activities focusing on information gathering on the illegal unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU-fishing) in coastal and marine fisheries for further improvement of the IUU-fishing related countermeasures for the Southeast Asian countries.
1. Improving fisheries information gathering system/mechanism through various capacity building programs and activities;
2. Enhancing regional capacities in the aspects of information gathering to improve IUU-fishing related countermeasures in the region;
3. Improving better understanding and knowledge of fisheries in the region particularly on small-scale coastal and inland fisheries towards achieving sustainable fisheries development in the Southeast Asian Region;
4. Improving compilation of information and statistics on small-scale coastal and inland fisheries in the Southeast Asian; and
5. Facilitating better presentation and knowledge on status and condition of small-scale coastal and inland fisheries at national and regional level
Plan OF ACTIVITIES IN 2011
Project/Activity Title |
Duration |
Remarks |
1. Improve information gathering |
Mar – Dec |
Organization of the project planning meeting
Organization of work-based capacity building program
Organization of regional capacity building program on research/science-based policy development
Setup the plan and design for:
Model for better understanding of the impact from IUU-fishing
Feasibility study on validating common format of fishing record |
2. Improve information gathering on small-scale coastal and inland fisheries |
Jan – July |
Organization of capacity building program for government officials responsible for collection and compilation of information and statistics on coastal, marine, and inland fisheries, Lao PDR.
Organization of the national workshop to improve compilation of information and statistics on small-scale coastal and inland fisheries, selected one of CLMV countries. |
3. Improve information gathering on tuna catch data |
Mar – Dec |
Organization of the 1st working group meeting
Organization of national capacity building program for tuna fisheries information gathering; and species identification at tuna canneries
Organization of expert meeting on bycatch in tuna fisheries
Organization of database working group meeting for designing the database system for tuna fisheries in SEA region. |
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