Report of the Meeting on the Development of a Sub-Regional Cooperation on Monitoring, Control and Surveillance in Fisheries in the Northern Andaman Sea

Abstract

The first Meeting on the Development of a Sub-regional Cooperation on Monitoring, Control and Surveillance in Fisheries in the Northern Andaman Sea was organized by the SEAFDEC-Sweden Project on 24-25 July 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Meeting was attended by National Technical Persons (NTPs) from relevant authorities from Myanmar and Thailand; SEAFDEC Secretary-General (SG); SEAFDEC/Secretariat, SEAFDEC/TD, SEAFDEC/MFRDMD and Regional Fisheries Policy Network RFPN) Members.

The Meeting was convened as a continuation of the Meeting held on November 2017 on the Third Sub-regional Consultative Workshop of the Northern Andaman Sea/Myeik Archipelago in Bangkok. Thailand and Myanmar agreed that SEAFDEC would formulate a Work Plan for establishing a coordinating MCS body in connection with the existing cooperation initiatives, which will closely link the coordination body for Monitoring, Control and to existing cooperation on Surveillance, an integrated MCS can be initiated that could start a plan or platform to handle cross-border issues on fisheries.