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The Fifty-second Meeting of the Council of SEAFDEC, hosted by the Government of Japan and originally scheduled to be convened in Fukuoka, Japan in April 2020, had been postponed due to the current crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. Nevertheless, the urgency of some agenda items for this Meeting …

Several activities of SEAFDEC, especially the training sessions scheduled in 2020, were postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to carry on the essential activities, SEAFDEC Secretariat is taking advantage of the online platform in conducting trainings. In this connection, the SEAFDEC Inter-Departmental Teleconference Meeting on Online Training Course …

The SEAFDEC Secretariat organized the Practical Workshop on Stock and Risk Assessments of Longtail (LOT) Tuna and Kawakawa (KAW) in the Southeast Asian Waters on 10-15 February 2020 at the SEAFDEC Training Department (SEAFDEC/TD) in Samut Prakan, Thailand. Attended by representatives from the SEAFDEC Member Countries, namely: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, …

The Senior Information Officer of SEAFDEC Secretariat, Ms. Saivason Klinsukhon, participated in the 28th Session of the Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics in Bali, Indonesia on 10-14 February 2020. The Meeting was convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and hosted by the …

During the Inter-Departmental Information Workshop organized by the SEAFDEC Secretariat on 4-7 February 2020 at the SEAFDEC Training Department in Samut Prakan, Thailand, the issues and concerns regarding the SEAFDEC Repository were addressed in order that the publications of SEAFDEC could be made easily accessible to the stakeholders. Attended by …

SEAFDEC attended the Regional Workshop on Sharing National Priorities for Addressing Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing in the Bay of Bengal and Gulf of Thailand, which was organized by FAO in Bangkok, Thailand on 14-15 January 2020. The Workshop was attended by 30 delegates from the South Asian and …

Hosted by the ASEAN Secretariat in collaboration with the Department of Fisheries Thailand, the Second ASEAN Meeting on Combating IUU Fishing in Partnership with the EU was convened on 13-14 December 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. The aims of the Meeting were to adopt the Terms of Reference on ASEAN Network …

SEAFDEC Secretary-General, Ms. Malinee Smithrithee, together with the Special Advisor to SEAFDEC, Mr. Masanami Izumi, and SEAFDEC Senior Policy Officer, Ms. Pattaratjit Kaewnuratchadasorn, took part in the 17th Session of the Sub-Committee on Fish Trade of the Committee on Fisheries (17COFI:FT), which was hosted by the Kingdom of Spain and …

SEAFDEC, with support from the Japan Fisheries Association, organized the “International Special Seminar on Marine Eco-Label Japan” at the SEAFDEC Secretariat in Bangkok, Thailand on 26 November 2019. The Seminar was aimed at introducing and sharing the fishery eco-label initiatives in Japan, and discussing the possibilities of extending the concept …

The Forty-second Meeting of the SEAFDEC Program Committee (42PCM) was organized on 11-13 November 2019 in Chiang Mai, Thailand to review the projects implemented by SEAFDEC in 2019 and endorse the projects and activities for 2020. Hosted by the SEAFDEC Training Department (TD) in cooperation with the SEAFDEC Secretariat, the …