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Mangrove-Friendly Shrimp Culture Project in 2000 Highlights
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MANGROVE-FRIENDLY
SHRIMP CULTURE PROJECT
2000 HIGHLIGHTS
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| Published on May 29, 2001 |
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Mangrove-Friendly Shrimp Culture Project
in 2000
As early as 1998, the Aquaculture Department (AQD) of the Southeast
Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) had already implemented
a five-year mangrove-friendly aquaculture program which addresses
not only shrimps but also other aquaculture species such as
grouper, mangrove red snapper, mud crab, etc. This was intended
to investigate ways of harnessing degraded mangrove areas for
aquaculture using environment-friend approach, and to develop
sustainable aquaculture in existing mangrove areas.
The progress of the program was however overtaken by a series
of events that led to a slight change of focus. During the
first Meeting of the ASEAN-SEAFDEC Fisheries consultative
Group (FCG) in March 1999, the program on the Promotion of
Mangrove-Friendly Aquaculture in Southeast Asian Countries
was approved under the FCG collaborative mechanism, with AQD
as Lead Department for SEAFDEC and Thailand as Lead Country
for ASEAN. The Twenty-Second Meeting of the SEAFDEC Program
Committee in November 1999, agreed that AQD's mangrove program
which will be placed under the FCG mechanism and funded through
the Japanese Trust Fund, should give more focus on shrimp
culture. Thus the Mangrove-Friendly Shrimp Culture Project
was initiated.
With this development, AQD convened the Mangrove-Friendly
Aquaculture Project Planning Workshop in Iloilo City, Philippines
from 12 to 13 May 2000, to review the status of mangrove-friendly
shrimp culture project which would focus on shrimp culture.
After the Workshop, the revised general framework and activities
to be conducted under the Project were confirmed and adopted.
The main objective of the revised project framework is to
develop sustainable shrimp culture technology package for
shrimp farming which are friendly to mangroves and the environment
and disseminate such packages in the region through actual
were implemented in 2000, namely, verification and pilot demonstration,
research, and preparation of instructional materials for dissemination.
This Report documents the progress of activities in 2000 of
the Project which could have not been possible without the
funding support from the Japanese Trust Fund. The support
and cooperation of the Government of Vietnam through its Ministry
of Fisheries' Research Institute of Marine Products in Hai
Phong; and those of the Government of Thailand through the
Department of Fisheries' Marine Shrimp Culture Research and
Development Institute, are also very much appreciated.
Susumu Ito
Department Deputy Chief
SEAFDEC/AQD and
Trust Fund Prokict Co-Manager for AQD |
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