Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing can take place in all capture fisheries. Efforts to conserve and manage fish stocks are undermined by IUU fishing, which can lead to the collapse of fisheries or can seriously impair efforts to rebuild fish stocks that have already been depleted. This may result in the loss of both short and long-term social and economic opportunities and could have negative impacts on food security. Considering the IUU fishing activities occurred in the region mostly found in forms of pouching, double flagging, across-border of fishing boat for fish landing (SEAFDEC, 2014). In this regard, the SEAFDEC Training Department has been implementing the project of “Promotion of Countermeasure to reduce IUU fishing” since 2012, one of the main activities is to establish the Regional Fishing Vessel Record (RFVR) as a management tool to reduce the such IUU fishing activities as above mentioned. In this regards, the ASEAN Member States (AMS) agreed that the fishing vessels to be included in the system are the vessels of 24 meters in length and over for the 1st phase. It is therefore in order to increase the effectiveness management of the RFVR of 24 meters in length and over, the database management system is needed.

Imsamrarn, N., Saraphaivanich, K., Suthipol, Y., & Chokesanguan , B. (2014). Development and Management of Database on Regional Fishing Vessel Record (RFVR) as a Tool to Combat IUU Fishing . SEAFDEC Technical Seminar 2014 (pp. 20-23). Samut Prakan: Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center.