SEAFDEC Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center
SEAFDEC and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) jointly hosted the Sub-regional Training Workshop on Mixed Stock Fisheries in the Gulf of Thailand on 26–30 August 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Workshop was attended by the fishery officers from the Gulf of Thailand countries, namely: Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Viet Nam; representatives from SEAFDEC and FAO; and resource persons. The Workshop was a continuous effort of SEAFDEC and FAO to enhance the capacity of the fishery officers engaged in stock assessment in Southeast Asia to enable them to provide science-based advice for management plans towards sustainable utilization of fishery resources. The Workshop focused on the Gulf of Thailand sub-region and covered several sessions including multispecies assessment and management framework, development of a common set of indicator species for the Gulf of Thailand, harvest strategies, and empirical alternatives in data-poor situations.
In addition, the participants were informed of the new GEF-funded project “Promoting the blue economy and strengthening fisheries governance of the Gulf of Thailand through the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (GoTFish Project)” and the assessments and reporting system to monitor the future changes in the fisheries in the Gulf of Thailand sub-region were discussed during the Workshop.
The Workshop was funded by FAO and the Japanese Trust Fund as part of the project “Assistance for Capacity Development in the Region to Address International Fisheries-related Issues” implemented by SEAFDEC.
