Marine capture fisheries
A Brief introduction to trawl fishery and management issues in Vietnam
2013
Trawl fisheries play an important role in Vietnam marine capture fishery, not only in terms of total number of fishing effort, but also in catch volume. According to DECAFIREP1 (2013), currently, there are about 19,700 trawlers which were categorized by different fishing fleets based on engine capacity (HP), namely below 20 CV, 20-‐ ˂50CV, 50-‐ ˂90CV, 90-‐ ˂ 150CV, 150-‐ ˂ 250CV, 250-‐ ˂ 400CV and above 400CV. Trawlers occur in all 28 coastal...
FAO/APFIC Workshop on "Implementing the 2009 FAO Agreement on Port State Measures to Combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing"
2012
This document contains the report of the FAO/APFIC Workshop on Implementing the 2009 FAO Agreement on Port State Measures to Combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing (the Agreement), which was held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 23 to 27 April 2012. The workshop focused on the implementation of the Agreement from a legal and policy, institutional and capacity development, and operations stand points.
Transition from low-value fish to compound feeds in marine cage farming in Asia
2012
Transition from low-value fish to compound feeds in marine cage farming in Asia. Hasan, M.R. (2012) FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper. No. 573. Rome, FAO. 2012. 198 pp. This technical paper presents the findings of the FAO Regional Technical Cooperation Project TCP/RAS/3203 (D) 'Reducing the dependence on the utilization of trash fish/low-value fish as feed for aquaculture of marine finfish in the Asian Region,' which was implemented between 1 August 2008 and 31 July 2011 in...