SEAFDEC Newsletter Vol.43 No.2http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12066/65452024-03-29T15:26:01Z2024-03-29T15:26:01ZSEAFDEC Newsletter Vol.43 No.2http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12066/65482022-03-04T03:20:13Z2020-06-01T00:00:00ZSEAFDEC Newsletter Vol.43 No.2
The current COVID-19 pandemic prompted the SEAFDEC Secretariat to facilitate the conduct of the “Fifty-second Meeting of SEAFDEC Council” through teleconference on 19 May 2020 and Ad Referendum Session thereafter. After taking note of the progress of activities and achievements of SEAFDEC in 2019, the SEAFDEC Council approved the proposed programs of activities to be undertaken by SEAFDEC in 2020, and endorsed the Draft Resolution and Plan of Action on Sustainable Fisheries for Food Security for the ASEAN Region Towards 2030. The said Resolution and Plan of Action was subsequently endorsed by the 28th Meeting of ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on Fisheries organized online on 24 June 2020, for submission to the higher authorities under the ASEAN mechanism.
The COVID-19 outbreak which has caused widespread restrictions on travel, abruptly called for the indefinite postponement of most of SEAFDEC’s workplan, and as a result, several essential activities in this quarter were carried out on online platform. These included the “Teleseminar on Effective Methods to
Promote Fisheries Resources Management
in Small-scale Fisheries” which highlighted
the sharing of information and experiences
on approaches to fisheries resources
management in small-scale fisheries in
Southeast Asia; and the “SEAFDECSweden
Project Final Review Meeting” which discussed the achievements as well as the challenges and lessons learned from the Project that focus on strengthening the capacity of the concerned Southeast Asian countries on the management of fisheries and habitats, management of fishing capacity, and combating IUU fishing. Notwithstanding the current situation and for the management of SEAFDEC activities to be carried out online, the “Inter-Departmental Meeting on Online Training Course” was organized focusing on the basics of online training, module development, training processes as well as the hardware and software needed for the success of the online-orchestrated activities of SEAFDEC.
Nevertheless, in view of their necessities, some activities had to be conducted by the Departments face-to-face, such as the “Workshop on Analysis of Sharks and Rays Landing Data for Determination of the Maximum Sustainable Yield” organized by MFRDMD; and the “Workshop on the Development the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM) Plan” organized by TD. Furthermore, the preliminary inspection of the fish passage constructed with assistance from TD was carried out to evaluate its performance as an effective pathway during the upstream migration of economically important freshwater fishes.
During the second quarter of 2020, the baton of the IFRDMD Deputy Chief was passed on from Dr. Takuro Shibuno after serving from 2018 to 2020, to Mr. Toshiya Suzuki starting March 2020. In addition, the term of assignment of AQD Deputy Chief, Dr. Koh-ichiro Mori, was completed after more than two years.
2020-06-01T00:00:00ZAcceleration of Online Training Course Development at AQDhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12066/65472022-03-04T03:20:13Z2020-04-01T00:00:00ZAcceleration of Online Training Course Development at AQD
For the past 46 years, SEAFDEC/AQD has hosted over 12,000 trainees from all over the world who took part in hands-on training
courses that the Department organized as part of AQD’s mandate to promote human resource development in aquaculture through
training. However, the outbreak of COVID-19 which was declared a pandemic in March 2020, led to widespread restrictions on
travel and mass gatherings which abruptly called for the indefinite postponement of most of AQD’s scheduled training courses.
With disruptions brought about by COVID-19 and the growing demand for human resource development in food production
sectors, the need to develop additional and better online training courses has been brought to light. Underscoring the advantage
and potentials of leveraging on the Internet to deliver information and developing human resources, AQD’s distance learning
courses will proceed as scheduled.
2020-04-01T00:00:00ZAssessing the Impacts of the COVID-19 on Fisheries and Aquaculture in Southeast Asiahttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12066/65462022-03-04T03:20:13Z2020-06-01T00:00:00ZAssessing the Impacts of the COVID-19 on Fisheries and Aquaculture in Southeast Asia
The Corona Virus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has rapidly spread throughout the globe since early 2020 impacting severely not only on the lives of people but also on the economies of the countries around the world. It has also brought unprecedented challenges to all development sectors, as business worldwide has been practically shut down because of countries’ lockdown measures, disruptions in all modes of transportation, and tourism restrictions affecting the food services systems, especially fisheries. Specifically, the crisis has brought severe impacts on the fisheries sector of the Southeast Asian countries as the major producers of fish and fishery products and major suppliers of fish to the global market. Fishing operations encounter difficulties due to national lockdown measures that prohibit the fishers from going out to sea to fish. Meanwhile, fish farmers have been restricted from working outside of their homes to halt any further spread of the virus. In order to assess the severity of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the fisheries and aquaculture in Southeast Asia, the SEAFDEC Secretariat has planned to organize the Webinar on the “Impacts of COVID-19 on Fisheries and Aquaculture in Southeast Asia” on 2-3 July 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the main objectives of discussing and assessing the impacts, and sharing how the private sector make immediate responses to address the issues as well as the medium-term mitigation of the impacts established by some countries.
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