| dc.description.abstract | Referring to the recommendations made at the “Expert Meeting on DeepSea
Fishing and
Its Impact on Ecosystem1” that SEAFDEC is requested to find best practice of the sampling gears
for deep‐sea fisheries resources. Over the years, SEAFDEC/TD has explored ways to utilize the
deep‐sea fisheries resources in Southeast Asian Region through improvement of so‐called
“environmental friendly sampling gears”, including mid‐water trawl, gillnet, and bottom vertical
longline. It was also suggested through the series of activities related to deep‐sea fisheries
resources exploration in the Southeast Asian Region that technical information/knowledge and
experience on bathygraphic mapping (fisheries resources mapping) should be transferred to
the Member Countries in order to provide an alternative source of fisheries resources from the
deep‐sea waters of the Member Countries with science‐based information, particularly on the
vulnerable marine ecosystem of their respective waters. In respond to this, SEAFDEC TD has
developed a set of equipment ready to be put into the trial before transferring such knowledge
and technology to the Member Countries. Subsequently, SEAFDEC/TD plans to organize
“Regional training workshop on benthic habitat mapping” scheduled in the third quarter of
2012, of which the tools2 for resources mapping are needed to be trailed. | en |
