SEAFDEC Department Chiefs’ Meeting convened

The SEAFDEC Department Chiefs’ Meeting was held in Singapore on 7 December 2024 attended by the SEAFDEC Secretary-General, Deputy Secretary-General, SEAFDEC Department Chiefs, and senior officials from the SEAFDEC Secretariat, TD, MFRD, AQD, MFRDMD, and IFRDMD . The Meeting noted the recommendations provided to SEAFDEC during the Fifty-sixth Meeting of SEAFDEC Council, Forty-seventh Meeting of SEAFDEC Program Committee, and Twenty-seventh Meeting of ASEAN-SEAFDEC Strategic Partnership of the Fisheries Consultative Group, and discussed the progress of the actions made by the Departments. For the information-related matters. Moreover, the Meeting also took note of the results of the Twenty-fifth Meeting of SEAFDEC Information Staff Program, especially on the issues that need to be considered by the concerned Departments such as the preparation of the SEAFDEC Annual Report 2024 and Special Publication “Fish for the People” as well as the theme of 2026 SEAFDEC Calendar . The Meeting also discussed the workplan for the Southeast Asian State of Fisheries and Aquaculture (SEASOFIA) 2027,  Fifty-seventh Meeting of SEAFDEC Council in 2025, and Concept and Time Schedule of Japanese Trust Fund Project Report which required the collaboration from the Departments. After the deliberation on the draft revision of the Plan of Operation and Program of Work of MFRD and Palembang Protocol on Transformative Inland Fisheries Governance in Southeast Asia, the Meeting noted that these documents will be discussed during the upcoming meeting of the SEAFDEC Council in 2025.