Second Regional Training Workshop on Stock Assessment in Support the Implementation of the International Commitments for Sustainable Use of Fisheries Resources

30/05/2022-07/06/2022 Virtual, Bangkok, Thailand

This Second FAO-SEAFDEC Regional training workshop will convene regional participants and their stock assessment data, for a second round of training in analysis and modelling, under the guidance of FAO stock assessment trainers and SEAFDEC resource persons. The outcome is expected to be the development of a group of stock assessments for commercial fishery species in the region and for the first time, an assessment-data based assessment of major stocks in in the sub-region.

The aim of this workshop is to build capacity to better inform fishery management in the countries in Southeast Asia, based on scientific evidence, and contribute to increased understanding of status and trends of fisheries in developing countries. This workshop will build on the first FAO-SEAFDEC regional training workshop to provide participants with a deeper understanding of the concepts of population dynamics models and how to develop them on a species context for management. The FAO-SEAFDEC Training Workshop will be held on 30 May to 7June, 2022 in hybrid format.

Timetable of the training course

Time	Activity	Responsible
Day 1 AM
	Opening Session
	Recap of the first training
	1.Participants statements of progress and challenges encountered
	a. Workshop participants overview	Rishi Sharma
	b. Process Overview	Rishi Sharma
	c. Data sets and fishery issues	Rishi Sharma
	d. Overview of Assessments and Summary of what we want in a Good Stock Assessment and Report	Dan Ovando
Day 1 PM
	2.Data analysis Approaches practical (Intersessional work will decide what to do)	All trainers
	Types of Data Available for Analysis	Participants
	Approaches to Pursue	Sharma
Day 1 End	Wrap Up and Discussions	All
Day 2	Mentored Dataset Examinations & analysis using models
Day 2 AM	SPM Models -JABBA	Sharma
	Example Datasets and use;	Sharma setup in R
	Country Specific Examples	Participants with CPUE data along with landings data
Day 2PM	LBSPR Models -	Dan Ovando
	Example Datasets and use;	Setup in R or Barefoot Ecologist
	Country Specific Examples	Participants with Length data
Day 2 End	Wrap Up and Discussions	All
Day 3	Mentored Dataset Examinations & analysis using models
Day 3 AM	Trend Data-JARA	Sharma
	Example Datasets and use	Sharma setup in R
	Country Specific Examples	Participants with some sort of time series of abundance data
Day 3PM	Life History based approaches, PSA	Jensen
	Example Datasets and use;	Setup and examination
	Country Specific Examples	Participants with very little data other than species
Day 3 End	Wrap Up and Discussions	All
Day 4	Mentored Dataset Examinations & analysis using models
Day 4 AM	LB Models, Cope DL Tool	Dan Ovando
	Example Datasets and use	Setup in R
	Country Specific Examples	Participants with some sort of time series of abundance data
Day 4PM	Examination of data and issues all participants	All
Day 4 End	Wrap Up and Discussions	All
Day 5	Datasets examination- All day using lessons learned previous days/ JABA/LBSSPR/JARA/DL_Tool	All
Day 5 End	Wrap Up and Discussions	All
Day 6	Results, wrap up, lessons learned
	7.Summarizing Results of Assessments/ Data Poor to Data Rich	Indonesia, Thailand, Brunei
Day 7	Results, wrap up, lessons learned
	8.Summarizing Results of Assessments/ Data Poor to Data Rich	Malaysia, Vietnam and Philippines
	9.Next Steps/Reports of Assessments/Workshops/Paper for Journal	All Trainers