SEAFDEC/AQD Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center | Aquaculture Department

A few weeks into the new year, SEAFDEC/AQD already had visitors from Maldives, Norway, and the Philippines.

On 1 December 2001, SEAFDEC/AQD and the Government of Japan Trust Fund (GOJ-TF) hosted the International seminar on environment-friendly aquaculture & stock enhancement in Southeast Asia and concluded the International training course on community-based freshwater aquaculture for remote rural areas of Southeast Asia.

To make research-and-development in fisheries more responsive to the needs of its 11 member-countries, SEAFDEC convened two meetings to work out its 2012 activities, including collaboration with ASEAN. AQD and DA-BFAR hosted these meetings in Manila from 14 to 18 November.

The international seminar Environment-friendly aquaculture and stock enhancement in Southeast Asia will take place at SEAFDEC/AQD in Iloilo, Philippines on 1 December 2011. Organized by the Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University in Japan, the seminar will include presentations by AQD researchers who received study grants from the Japan society for the promotion of science through its Asia-Africa science platform program.

Around a thousand pupils, teachers, and facilitators from the Philippine Society of Youth Science Clubs visited SEAFDEC/AQD on 26 October.