http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12066/6448 2026-04-07T23:02:44Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12066/6455 Fish for the People Vol.18 No.1 The seven-year technical and financial support provided by the Swedish Government to SEAFDEC facilitated the implementation of the Project “Fisheries and Habitat Management, Climate Change and Social Well-being in Southeast Asia” starting in 2013. Known as the SEAFDECSweden Project, its implementation which reached the final leg in 2019 has the overall objective of achieving sustainable utilization and management of the aquatic resources and reducing vulnerability to climate change by fishing communities in the ASEAN Member States (AMSs). Such goal had been achieved through the Project’s adherence to its three output objectives: Capacity Built for Integration of Fisheries and Habitat Management and Adaptation to Climate Change; Capacity Built and System Improved for the Management of Fishing Capacity (monitoring, record and control); and Capacity Built and Policy Development Process Improved for Drafting and Implementation of Regional and Sub-regional Agreements. Several crosscutting issues had also been addressed, especially those related to gender and labor aspects, local capacity-building, diversifying livelihoods, enhancing the social well-being, and strengthening the cooperation among the Southeast Asian countries. Although the Project embraced four subregions in Southeast Asia, i.e. the Andaman Sea, Gulf of Thailand, Mekong River Basin, and the Sulu-Sulawesi Seas, specific sub-regional focus was given to strengthening of the cooperation around the Gulf of Thailand and Andaman Sea, considering that the other two sub-regions had already been covered by collaborating partners. During the course of its implementation, the SEAFDECSweden Project had successfully concluded several activities with significant achievements, e.g. sustainable management of neritic tunas and other transboundary aquatic resources/stocks, management of fishing capacity and combating IUU fishing, establishment of MCS networks, strengthening gender integration in the fisheries sector, addressing the importance of small-scale fisheries. The Project activities had been planned and carried out with the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM) at their backdrops. Furthermore, discussions among the countries concerned were part and parcel of the Project to ensure that several areas of mutual interest were being addressed and fostered through enhanced sub-regional cooperation that were achieved by the frequent bilateral dialogues among the countries in the sub-regions. The experiences obtained and lessons learned from the implementation of the Project had been shared through the various fora as well as through the different issues of this SEAFDEC Special Publication Fish for the People. Moreover, the Project outputs had also been encapsulated into Key Messages to serve as guide for SEAFDEC, the ASEAN, governments of the AMSs, and the Project’s partner organizations in building on the Project results and sustaining its initiatives beyond 2019. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12066/6454 Enhanced Fisheries Sector Capability for Sustainable and Socially-equitable Resources Management: A legacy of the SEAFDEC-Sweden Project for Southeast Asia Kaewnuratchadasorn, Pattaratjit; Sulit, Virgilia T.; Tongdee, Nualanong The Government of Sweden has been supporting the efforts of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) in pursuing the sustainable development and management of fisheries in the Southeast Asian region. During 2003-2007, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) through the Swedish Board of Fisheries collaborated with SEAFDEC for the implementation of the Regional Guidelines for Responsible Fisheries in Southeast Asia: Responsible Fisheries Management in the ASEAN Member States (AMSs) through the conduct of capacity building activities and regional consultations. This led to the unfolding of three thematic priorities to be pursued, for the sustainability of the fisheries of Southeast Asia. These thematic priorities are: (1) management of fishing capacity for combating illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing; (2) strengthening of local fisheries management to adapt to climate change and improve social well-being, and (3) integration of fisheries into habitat management. With the main objective of advancing the sustainable management of fishing capacity in the region, a subsequent collaboration between Sida and SEAFDEC (2008-2012) had evolved which was promoted through regional and sub-regional arrangements, and which hereinafter laid the foundation for the development of four sub regions in Southeast Asia, namely: the Andaman Sea, Gulf of Thailand, Mekong River Basin, and the Sulu-Sulawesi Seas. Building therefore upon the progress of the Sida and SEAFDEC arrangements, a new arrangement (2013-2019) was forged between SEAFDEC and the Government of Sweden through the Swedish Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand for the promotion of regional cooperation and development, and implementation of sub-regional agreements on fisheries and environmental management, with the fishers in coastal and inland communities as the target stakeholders. Dubbed as the SEAFDEC-Sweden Project, it had pursued activities that aim to enhance the integration of fisheries and habitat management, e.g. adaptation to climate change and improving social wellbeing in coastal and inland communities. The collaborative arrangements between SEAFDEC and the Government of Sweden therefore had provided opportunities for fishers in the coastal communities of the region to enhance their capability in aggressively pursuing sustainable management of the fishery resources, the adaptive norms to changes in the climate, and improvement of their social well-being. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12066/6453 Enhancing the Management of the Indo-Pacific Mackerel Resources in the Gulf of Thailand: a synthesis Tint, Kay Khine; Ngin, Kamsan; Sapari, Agus; Souliphone, Khambor; Suwannapoom, Sumolmal; Viron, Jennifer G.; Thanh, Vu Thi Phuong In Southeast Asia, the Gulf of Thailand has one of the highest potentials in terms of pelagic fishery resources, due to its shallow topographic bottom features forming the Gulf into a large basin, the seasonal change in wind and current, and the several rivers that discharge water and nutrients into it. With a surface area of 320,000 km2 (123,553 mi2), the Gulf of Thailand (GoT) is bordered by four countries, namely: Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Viet Nam. GoT is well recognized for its important habitats and abundance of marine aquatic resources, with fisheries sector that provides significant livelihoods, food security and nutrition to the people of the GoT countries. At present however, the fishery resources in GoT is declining due to fishing pressure, and the rampant practice of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. In order to address such concerns, the bordering countries of GoT exerted efforts to manage the resources of the Gulf that include the promotion of collaborative fisheries management for commercially-important transboundary species such as anchovy, Indo-Pacific mackerel and blue swimming crab. This article focuses on the management of the Indo-Pacific mackerel (Rastrelliger brachysoma) resources in the Gulf of Thailand. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12066/6452 Towards the Sustainable Management of Purse Seine Fisheries in Southeast Asia Saleh, Mohammad-Faisal Md; Arshaad, Wahidah Mohd; Hassan, Raja Bidin Raja; Masaya, Katoh; Latun, Abdul Razak; Fatah, Nurul Nadwa Abdul; Jaafar, Khairiah The Resolution and Plan of Action on Sustainable Fisheries for Food Security for the ASEAN Region Towards 2020 (SEAFDEC, 2011) adopted during the ASEAN-SEAFDEC Conference on Sustainable Fisheries for Food Security Towards 2020 “Fish for the People 2020: Adaptation to a Changing Environment” in 2011, includes Resolution No. 10 on the need to “Strengthen knowledge/sciencebased development and management of fisheries through enhancing the national capacity in the collection and sharing of fisheries data and information,” and Resolution No. 22 to “Establish and strengthen regional and subregional coordination on fisheries management and efforts to combat IUU fishing including the development of regional/sub-regional Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) networks.” These Resolutions have also been directed towards the development of management strategies for sustainable fisheries, more particularly, purse seine fisheries which is one of the most practiced fisheries in the Southeast Asian region. In responding to such Resolutions, the Malaysia-based SEAFDEC Marine Fisheries Resources Development and Management Department (SEAFDEC/MFRDMD) implemented the project “Comparative Studies on the Management of Purse Seine Fisheries in the Southeast Asian Region” from 2013 to 2019, in cooperation with the SEAFDEC Secretariat and SEAFDEC Training Department. With funding support from the Japanese Trust Fund, the Project involved eight participating ASEAN Member States (AMSs), namely: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam; and was aimed at coming up with: 1) an analysis of the historical data on catch and effort of purse seine fisheries among the AMSs; 2) evaluation of the purse seine fisheries management systems among the AMSs; and 3) a review of the genetic structure of commercially-important small pelagic fishes targeted by purse seine. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z