The Training Department (TD) of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) conducts training and research regarding marine capture fisheries. Under its training activities, the Department offers a regular ...

Problem of population analysis have been increasing year by year. This is attributed, on the one hand, to the programs of exploitation of fish resources having been carried out so successfully that the use of data processing ...

It has been the worldwide trend in recent years to exploit and make effective use of skipjack resources of the South Seas. Skipjack fishing may be represented by Japan's traditional pole and line fishing and the U.S. purse ...

It is said that the demersal resources in coastal waters, particularly those in shallow waters and in flat sea-bottom areas, have already been over exploited. However, we can safely assume that there are many areas, even ...

Fishing is classified into net fishing, line fishing and miscellaneous fishing. Of the different types of net fishing, there are many which are operated on a large scale, such as trawl net fishing, purse seine fishing, ...

The present textbook has been prepared to give SEAFDEC trainees a basic knowledge of economically important marine fishes found in the Southeast Asian Waters. The twenty-five species of pelagic fishes and thirteen species ...

The stick-held dip net fishing has been widely operated in Japan since old times. The gear is suitable for small-scale fishing; it is easily operated at a lower coast and by smaller crews than some other types of gear ...

The lift net is an extremely adaptable fishing method which is practiced world-wide in rivers, lakes, marshes, coastal waters and even the open sea. The nets range widely in both scale and operation from small scoop nets ...

It was in 1893 that an eminent Danish fisheries biologist, C.G. Joh Petersen, first tagged plaice by attaching to them a numbered bone disc for the purpose of estimating the exploitation rate and the size of population. ...

At the First Ministerial Conference for the Economic Development of Southeast Asian held in Tokyo in April 1966, it was proposed by the Delegation from Thailand that, with the cooperation of Japan, a Marine Fisheries ...