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Since July, 2001
Update 26 April 2004
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| "Future Program": Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center |
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The project will include following activities:
Activity 1. Establish mechanism of partnership:
The System should be progressively opened to non-SEAFDEC fisheries data, as it is SEAFDEC function to disseminate important regional fisheries information. The Secretariat is already committed to work in collaboration with a few other organizations, equally interested to develop a regional database system for fisheries management. These organizations exact purpose for developing such a system should be explored in the incoming consultation meeting.
Currently interested organizations are the Coastal Development Centre of Kasetsart University (CDC), the Integrated Tropical Coastal Zone Management Program (ICTZM) of the Asian Institute of Technology, SEA START RC of Chulalongkorn University, and WESTPAC. When the digitized atlas will have to cover inland capture fisheries management as well, collaboration of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) might be explored. FAO has recently shown a keen interest in SEAFDEC digitized atlas and more generally SEAFDEC capacity in developing and using database and GIS.
Another critical mechanism of collaboration will have to be explored on a longer term, concerning the governmental organizations of the ASEAN member countries involved in fisheries development and management. If those are to bring their activities into the digitized atlas, it will require important clarification on the digitized atlas system, with standardization of data collection and capacity building, to allow member countries to eventaully process and encode the national information themselves. Further discussion should be made with the national coordinators.
Activity 2. Update the existing Regional Database, GIS work and SEAFDEC website:
Activity 3. Develop and Establish new regional database base on the current ASEAN-SEAFDEC program:
Activity 4. Promotion of SEAFDEC digitized atlas:
Envisaged Output:
The digitized atlas is not seen as the regional system where every fisheries data will be centralized. A seen above, there are two main reasons urging to screen only pertinent information: limitations in SEAFDEC human, technical, and financial capacity; and keeping the digitized atlas user-friendly. Therefore, the system will not be fully comprehensive, but offer links to sources for more exhaustive information.
As the main guideline, only the data that is useful for management and planning at the regional level will be included in the system. local information may in some case be in useful at the regional level, as adding progressively summarized information from case studies or local projects into the system can build a regional system that will be meaningful. Scientific should be kept separated of the digitized atlas as such, only their significant contribution to reginal fisheries comprehension could be included in the system.
As a first step, the digitized atlas will first focus on marine fisheries management, which sould include both capture fisheries and secondarily aquaculture. As MFRDMD project on Information Gathering on Inland Capture Fisheries is initiated, the digitized atlas will be expened to also cover these findings in a second step.
The digitized atlas will be accessible to all trough two main sources: online through SEAFDEC website or through CDs that can be ordered from SEAFDEC.
Based on a regional map, which can be scaled up and down, information on activities from SEAFDEC and other organizations will appear as points (or even polygons) which can be clicked in, offering access to the available summarized information in another window. The interface beside map should offer several tools allowing the user to enter queries for specific information (based on a specific topic, geographical area, time interval, etc.). Cross-references should be made where possible, with their own set of tools, to relate the different activities together, and linkages to more complete sources of information should appear when existing.
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