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Since July, 2001
Update 26 April 2004
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| "FIS-DA"- Background : Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center |
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Over the past 35 years of SEAFDEC existence, hundreds of projects and activities have been implemented across Southeast Asia. Achievements of SEAFDEC and non-SEAFDEC organisations activities have often been reported under the form of hard copies and publications, but also
more recently under digital form. However, information on what's going on in the ASEAN region is generally widely disseminated, scarce or non updated, making the situation unclear even to potential donors.
SEAFDEC understands the benefits of geo-informatics technologies such as Geographic Information System (GIS) in helping regional fisheries development and management. These technologies can notably provide a good media to effectively disseminate information and coordinate and improve core activities carried out by the regional fisheries organisations. As such, a regional fishery Information System is considered to be useful for fisheries planning and management, helping to reach sustainability in the Southeast Asian region.
Since 1999, the Digitized Atlas program (DA) was established through the SEAFDEC homepage. This first phase of work focused on information dissemination of the current fisheries situation, including results from the Collaboative Research Programme on the marine resource survey in the South China Sea, with some work on statistic database. However, it resulted in a complex system as a huge amount of very diverse information was entered, and it became heavy to use and develop. Furthermore, its purpose was unclear as it targeted both researchers and fisheries developers/managers.
SEAFDEC mandate is progressively shifting from training and research to information (which includes coordination, harmonization, etc.), espeacially at the regional level. As training has become a national activity, research belongs more to a personal rather than institutional domain. In this view, SEAFDEC is shifting the development of the DA into a system targeted to inform on the region critical issues on fisheries.
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