Report of online training course on energy audits for fishing vessels

Abstract

This report is a part of an online regional training course on Energy Audits for Fishing Vessels organized from June 21to23, 2022, online via the Zoom platform under the situation of the Corona Virus-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the Southeast Asian region and all over the world. This online training course was envisaged for updating technical information on technologies of energy saving or optimizing fuel use for fishing vessels. This includes measuring the energy consumption of each fishing vessel to help assess optimal performance and operating conditions for the most cost-effective use of energy. Hence, It could be ways forward for improving and raising awareness of the optimal utilization of fuel in fishing activities. Expected participants of the online training course, who came from those relevant working experiences and related fishing vessels, can gain, and transfer the knowledge and experiences from the training program to fishers or related people in their Countries. Success from this course is indispensable without kindly contribution from the Japanese Trust fund, which has several main targets to improve the livelihood of fishers in the Southeast Asian Region. There were two sessions at the online training: (1) Literature reviews and (2) Discussion/evaluation. All details in this report summarize the main points made during the presentations and discussions. For other reference information such as lists of participants, presentation files, photos of activities, etc. are presented in the appendix behind.