Report of the national training on improvement of data collection for tuna gillnet and purse seine fisheries in Vietnam, 27-29 February 2012, Binh Dinh, Vietnam

Abstract

The tuna statistics in Vietnam has been assisted by the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) in data collection from longliners, leaving the data from gillnetters and purse seiners out. In order to fill this gap, the SEAFDEC Training Department (TD) agreed to assist in training of national enumerators and provincial fisheries supervisors the port sampling techniques. The training was conducted 27-29 February 2012 in Binh Dinh province with the financial support of the Japanese Trust Fund.