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Aquaculture-based Enhancement and Restoration of Giant Clam in Thailand
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2016)
Giant clams are protected species under Thailand's Wildlife Conservation and Protection Act of B.E. 2535. Natural stock of giant clams has been declining to scarcity in almost every natural distribution area. Among three ...
The Status of Fisheries in the Republic of Maldives
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)
The paper discusses the tuna fisheries in Maldives which dominates its fishing industry. Apart from a very strong domestic market, tuna is also the main export commodity of the country. Moreover, reef fisheries such as, ...
Discards in Japanese Marine Capture Fisheries and their Estimation
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)
By catch focused here is incidental catch to be discarded at sea and those utilised is dealt little. This is because, as widely stated, by catch is not necessarily a negative practice as there are many fisheries which are ...
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 ...
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 ...
Methodology to Estimate Bycatch and Discards
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)
FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 339 (1994) provided the first estimation of global bycatch and discards, however, the estimated discards of 27 million tons have been abolished at FAO Consultation Meeting in Tokyo (1996). ...
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 ...
Methodology of Evaluating Selectivity Performance - Two Selective Processes of Trawl Sorting Devices: Fish Encountering and Being Sieved
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)
The mesh selectivity of each mesh size is a basic study for size-sorting, and usually expresses the proportion retained as a function of the body length of a fish. It is however likely to depend more directly on the ...
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 ...