09 Conference Proceedings: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Application of the Australian Trawl Efficiency Device in Australia s Northern Prawn Fishery
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)The following paper is made up of three field trip reports covering the testing and commercial use of the Australia Trawl Efficiency Device (AusTED). The work was carried out in the Northern Prawn Fishery (NPF) aboard five ... -
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 ... -
Study on Turtle Excluder and By-catch Reduction Devices in the Philippines
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)Experimental test-fishing of different TED types, namely : modified Thai Turtle Free Device (TTFD), Super Shooter (SS) and Hooped TED were conducted for eight (8) fishing days in March and April 1997 in Manila Bay. Assessment ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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). ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Status of Fisheries in Union of Myanmar
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)Presented in the paper is the status of fisheries in the Union of Myanmar for the period 1996-1997. Discussed are the fishery production, and trade of the country, including its fishery policies. -
Status of fishing conditions in Cambodia
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)Fisheries in plays a very important role in Cambodia’s national economic development. Total fish catch production in 1996 was 104 310 tones, about which 60% was contributed by inland capture fisheries, 30% by marine capture ... -
Fish Resources of Vietnamese Sea Waters and Recommendations for Rational Utilization
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)Sea and continental shelf belonging to Vietnamese EEZ has an estimated areas of more than 1 mil. km<sup>2</sup>, this is three times greater than land. Sea and continental shelf is becoming an important part in fishery ... -
Fishing Status of Thailand
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)Marine fishery of Thailand characterized as multi-species and multi-gear fishery. The continuous advances in fishing technology make marine production increasing annually that resulted in depletion of the stocks particularly ... -
Status of Fishing Conditions in the Philippines in Relation to Responsible Fishing
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)In 1990-1995 the aquaculture and commercial fisheries in the Philippines achieved a positive growth, on the other hand, the municipal fisheries has been declining. The government's open-access policy in fisheries had been ... -
Department of Fisheries Malaysia: Training and Extension Programs
(Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 1997)Presented in the paper are the training and extension programs of the Department of Fisheries Malaysia. The most common and important issues facing the marine capture fishery, such as overfishing, competition between ...
