It was generally agreed that the team should direct the majority of their effort into the initiation of an intensive fish seed collection programme. The beach seine, in this case, has been proved to be the most effective means of harvest. However, it requires a minimum of six people in this operation. It is, therefore, recommended that adequate staff be allocated to the team as soon as possible, and that a survey of the lagoon to locate additional sites for fish seed collection be conducted. In addition to capture operations, a fish seed buying office should be set up to be headed by a counterpart staff who has the ability to communicate with the local fishermen and experience on the fisheries of the area.
It was the experience of the writer that since considerable amounts of trash fish could be obtained during the process of fry collection, such catches should be utilized as feed for the cultured stock. When fry collection is not possible, especially during holidays and periods of shortage of staff, supplementary feed could be acquired either at this “buying” office and/or at the landing site at Kampong Mang Kok. It is, therefore, recommended that a two-man team be put in charge of feed collection on an alternate day basis. In addition to the above-mentioned recommendations, it is also decided that the much needed equipment items such as the freezers and the generator as recommended by the consultants should be made available to the project as soon as possible, in order to facilitate the holding of fish feed. All input records of feed should be kept daily so that the technical feasibility and economical viability of the project could be evaluated.
A counterpart staff with the ability to communicate with the master fish farmer would be advisable to work as a counterpart worker in the project. Such a person should ideally be experienced with fisheries extension work and should also be familiar with scientific experiment procedures in fisheries biology and hydrography. Weekly hydrographic investigation should be conducted by a research oriented member of the team at predetermined hydrographic stations as shown in Fig. 6. All records of hydrographic sampling should be kept as monitoring data of the environment.
