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Regional Study and Workshop on the Environmental Assessment and Management of Aquaculture Development - Report

Year of publication 1995

Pages p.503

Author Dr Banchong Tiensongrusmee;Fisheries and Aquaculture Management Division

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This Regional Study and Workshop on the Environmental Assessment and Management of Aquaculture Development (TCP/RAS/2253) was requested by governments of the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA) and funded through the Tenchnical Co-operation Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The project was launched in September 1992, with a planning meeting in Bangkok attended by National Environment Co-ordinators (NECs) nominated by participating g overnments. Following this planning meeting, the NECs undertook detailed country studies in preparation for the final workshop, held on 21–26 February 1994, at the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAPA) of FAO. The final workshop was attended by 30 government officers from 16 countries in the region, as well as 40 other participants that included representatives of various international organisations, international and regional resource speakers, members of the TCP project team (an ec onomist, environmental management specialist and legal expert) and observers from government agencies, non-government organisations and the private sector. The governments represented by their respective NECs and senior government planners included: Bangladesh; Cambodia; China; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Iran; Korea (Rep.); Lao PDR; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; the Philippines; Sri Lanka; Thailand; and Vietnam. The NEC of Pakistan prepared a country report which was considered by the workshop. DP R Korea had participated in the planning meeting, but did not attend the final workshop. Participating international organisations included the World Health Organization (WHO), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

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