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No Thumbnail AvailableProjectSouth China Sea fisheries development and coordinating programme. Training on assessment of coastal aquaculture potential, Malaysia. Regional 1982
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No results found.The project was planned as a training mission both to assist the Government in developing procedures for assessing coastal aquaculture potential with respect primarily to fishpond culture, and to aid in evaluating the Balik Pulau site in Pinang. The activities and schedule of this project, as specified by the Government, are reproduced in Appendix 1. In addition, at a meeting on 10 November 1981, the Director-General of Fisheries, stated that one of the principal purposes of the programme of the Government was to improve the income of the artisanal fisherman by additionally making him a fish farmer as an integral part of coastal aquaculture development. This goal was fully considered in the study. The coastal fishery of the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia has been intensive (432 000 tons in 1979), resulting in a declining trend in annual fish landings and also a saturation of fishermen in recent years. Coastal mangrove areas are virtually unused for aquaculture. There are an estima ted 112000 ha in Peninsular Malaysia (Fig. 1) and 540 000 ha in Sabah and Sarawak. In the adjacent Philippines and in Thailand, mangrove swamps are being used extensively for coastal fishpond culture. To determine the potential of aquaculture in mangrove swamps in Malaysia, the Government is negotiating an extensive bilateral pre-feasibility study -
DocumentFish utilization, marketing and trade in countries bordering the South China Sea – status and programme proposals 1973
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DocumentInstitutional and legal aspects affecting fishery development in selected countries bordering the South China Sea 1974
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