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Small-scale Oyster Culture on the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia - BOBP/REP/63










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    Small-Scale Culture of the Flat Oyster ( Ostrea Folium) in Pulau Langkawi, Kedah, Malaysia -BOBP/WP/73 1991
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    This paper describes the small-scale culture of the flat oyster (Ostreafolium) in Pulau Langkawi, Kedah (between 1979 and 1980), which was part of a programme aimed at developing oyster culture along the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The trials were initially managed by a Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP) field biologist with help from the fishermen and their families and with support from the Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP) and the Department of Fisheries, Malaysia. Acknowledgement is due to the Director General of Fisheries, Malaysia, Dato Shahrom bin Haji Abdul Majid for his kind support and permission to publish this paper, the Director of Research and Charles Angell for encouragement, guidance - and constructive criticism of the manuscript, and to Ruslan B Shamsuddin for information furnished on the project.
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    Report of the bio-economic modelling workshop on the small pelagic fisheries of the west coast of peninsular Malaysia
    Vistana hotel, Penang, Malaysia. 12-16 February 2001
    2001
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    A bio-economic modelling workshop was organized in order to improve the information base for the preparation of a fisheries management plan of the small pelagic fisheries of the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Plan preparation by the Department of Fisheries is supported by the FAO/Norway FishCode Project (see Field Reports F-13 and F-17). Two different modelling approaches have been applied to these fisheries. The surplus production bioeconomic model of the Gordon-Schaefer type sugg ests that effort at MSY is about 387,000 standard purse seine days producing a MSY of about 109,000 tonnes of small pelagics. At the MSY effort level, however, resource rent is completed dissipated and the fishery incurs an estimated loss of MR 25.6 million. As current effort level (data of 1997) is about 380,000 standardized fishing days, the analysis suggests that fishing effort and capacity are excessive. A resource rent of about MR 77 million might be attainable through the reducti on of fishing effort to 180,000 standardized fishing days, i.e. less than half of the current level. This result should be interpreted as providing an order of magnitude only because of the application of a single species model to an assemblage of small pelagic species. One species group, namely Rastrelliger, contributes 73 percent to the ex-vessel value of these fisheries. This result should also be interpreted cautiously because the shoaling nature of small pelagic species was not expl icitly taken into account in the modelling exercise....
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    A Guide to Oyster Culture in Malaysia - BOBP/MAG/18 1993
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    This manual was prepared as part of a pilot project to transfer oyster culture technology to fisherfolk of the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The project was implemented by the Fisheries Research Institute of the Department of Fisheries, Penang. Malaysia. The Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP) provided financial and technical support. The objective of the project was to increase fisherfolk income through increased earnings from oyster farm production. The project started in 1988 and BOBP invol vement, undertakenunderGCP/RAS/1I8/MUL.endedinJuly1993. This is a practical manual which, it is hoped, will he of use to oyster farmers, government officials and investors. The manual describes various methods of oyster culture which have been found to be profitable during the course of the project. Methods for spat collection from wild stocks, as well as the use of hatchery produced spat are described. The best grow-out methods are explained and investment costs are given for different size d enterprises, using current prices. Techniques for marketing oysters and the importance of depuration are explained.

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