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This is a curated collection of technical documents relevant to the capture fisheries and aquaculture in the  Asia-Pacific region. This is a collection of the technical output of APFIC workshops or the APFIC Secretariat. There are also FAO publications relevant to the APFIC region. 

Technical Reports

Pacific Island Fisheries - regional and country information
2002

In general, the Pacific Islands increase in size from east to west. Most islands rise steeply from the deep ocean floor and have very little underwater shelf area. Coral reefs characteristically surround the islands, either close to the shore (fringing reef) or further offshore (barrier reef), in which case a coastal lagoon is enclosed. The area includes many atolls, which are the remnant barrier reefs of islands that have subsided. Some of the more...

Building awareness in aspects of fishery statistics, stock assessment and management
2002

  FAO/RAP, 2002. Building Awareness in Aspects of Fishery Statistics, Stock Assessment and Management: Proceedings of the “Regional Training Workshop on the Use of Statistics and Other Information for Stock Assessment”. FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand. RAP Publication 2002/27, 96 pp. The document includes a brief account of the fishery statistics programme undertaken by the FAO Fishery Information, Data and Statistics Unit (FIDI). Catch statistics from the FAO database are provided...

The role and nutritional value of aquatic resources in the livelihoods of rural people – a participatory assessment in Attapeu Province, Lao PDR
2003

As a contribution to the Dialogue on Water, Food and the Environment, the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and IUCN – the World Conservation Union have undertaken a joint initiative to investigate the relationships between living aquatic resources, rice agriculture and the livelihoods of the people who manage these systems.  This assessment is intended to address the concern that the ecological and livelihood functions and values of rice fields and adjoining wetlands...

New approaches for the improvement of inland capture fishery statistics in the Mekong Basin
2003

  Inland capture fisheries provide a valuable contribution to food security in the Mekong Basin. However, official national estimates of this contribution have consistently been lower than estimates derived from more focused and localized fishery surveys. Thus, inland capture fisheries are undervalued by decision makers and development agencies. The poor state of knowledge on inland fisheries arises from the diverse nature of inland fisheries, that fisheries are often small-scale and dispersed over large areas, that...

FAO-ASEAN strategic planning workshop on harmonization of standards for shrimp export-import
2003

Due to the increasing concerns regarding disparities in quality control and inspections standards among ASEAN countries and the ability to export seafood commodities (especially shrimp) to other regions, the ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on Fisheries (ASWGFi) meeting in Lao PDR in May 2003 formed an ASEAN Sectoral Task Force to harmonize quality and inspection standards for shrimp export and imports in the region. As the lead country nominated by the ASWGFi for this issue,...

Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Management of Large Rivers for Fisheries Volume I
2004

Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Management of Large Rivers for Fisheries Volume I. Welcomme R. and T. Petr, Eds., FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand. RAP Publication 2004/16, pp. 1-20. The Second International Symposium on the Management of Large Rivers for Fisheries was held on 11 - 14 February 2003 in Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia. It had three primary objectives: to provide a forum to review and synthesise the...

Introductions and movement of Penaeus vannamei and Penaeus stylirostris in Asia and the Pacific
2004

Both Penaeus vannamei1 and P. stylirostris originate on the Western Pacific coast of Latin America from Peru in the south to Mexico in the north. They were introduced from the early 1970s to the Pacific Islands, where research was conducted into breeding and their potential for aquaculture. During the late 1970s and early 1980s they were introduced to Hawaii and the Eastern Atlantic Coast of the Americas from South Carolina and Texas in the...

Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Management of Large Rivers for Fisheries Volume II
2004

The Second International Symposium on the Management of Large Rivers for Fisheries was held on 11 – 14 February 2003 in Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia. It had three primary objectives: 1) to provide a forum to review and synthesize the latest information on large rivers; 2) to raise the political, public and scientific awareness of the importance of river systems, the living aquatic resources they support and the people who depend on them; and 3) to contribute to...

The history of industrial marine fisheries in Southeast Asia
2004

  Using the information in Butcher 2004 (Butcher, John G. 2004. The Closing of the Frontier: A History of the marine fisheries of Southeast Asia c.1850-2000. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, 442 pp) and other sources, a review of the history of development of the major industrial marine fisheries in Southeast Asia has been undertaken. The production methods and fisheries considered were: (a) pearling; (b) trawling; (c) purse seining; (d) shrimp trawling; (e)...

Culture of fish in rice fields
2004

  Halwart, M. and M.V. Gupta (eds.) 2004. Culture of fish in rice fields. FAO and The WorldFish Center, 83 p.   Rice today is grown in 113 countries in the world in a wide range of ecological conditions and water regimes. The cultivation of most rice crops in irrigated, rainfed and deepwater systems offers a suitable environment for fish and other aquatic organisms. Over 90% of the world’s rice, equivalent to approximately 134 million...