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Training and Extension Program on Responsible Fishing in Indonesia
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)
Series of research and seminars were currently carried out in Indonesia to build sufficient scientific evidences in formulating national policy on Responsible Fishing. With those activities, it is expected that suitable ...
Experiments on the Use of Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) in Malaysian Waters
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)
Trawl experiments deploying a research vessel and two chartered fishermen s boats were conducted to study the suitability of different types of Turtle Excluder Devices attached to the local shrimp trawl nets. A total of ...
Guidelines for Responsible Fishing
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)
A document, Technical Guidelines for Responsible Fisheries, Vol. 1: Fishing Operations has been recently published by FAO to provide practical advice on implementing the provisions of Article 8 of the Code of Conduct ...
Southeast United States Fisheries Bycatch Reduction Research in Shrimp Trawl Fisheries
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)
Presented in the paper are the two devices that were developed by some states in the southeast United States to reduce fisheries bycatch in shrimp trawls. These were Turtle Excluder Device (TED) and Bycatch Reduction Device ...
Strategy for the Implementation of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)
This paper presents the strategy for the implementation of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (CCRF). CCRF was adopted by the Twenty-eighth Session of the FAO Conference in October 1995. It is of a voluntary ...
Responsible Fisheries Training in Canada
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)
The concept of responsible fisheries matters all parties involved in fishing and other related activities that utilize or deal with marine and freshwater resources. The Code of Responsible Fisheries as developed by FAO ...
Moving towards more Responsible Fishing Practices in Australia s Northern Prawn Fishery
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)
Bycatch in Australia s Northern Prawn Fishery (NPF) is extremely diverse in both species and size composition. This makes developing responsible fishing practices to reduce the amount of bycatch in the NPF, a complex ...
Fish Behaviour Approach for Improving Trawl Gear Selectivity
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)
Gear selectivity has been a gold-medal goal for research and development in Fishing Technology, for the purpose to increase the target catch and to decrease the bycatch. In case of trawl fisheries, the gear designing by ...
Cooperative Research in Asian Fisheries-future Directions and Opportunities
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)
The fisheries of many countries in Asia are heavily reliant upon fisheries as a major source of food protein with fish consumption levels two to three times higher than those of western countries and collectively, the ...
The Experiments on Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) for Shrimp Trawl Nets in Thailand
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)
The purpose of this paper is to determine a suitable type of Turtle Excluder Device (TED) attached to the body of a shrimp trawl to avoid inflicting harm on marine turtles. Seven types of the TEDs were tested; three brought ...