FI:CPR/88/077 Field Document 2 January 1990 PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA A FISHERIES MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR QINGHAI LAKE A report prepared for the project Fisheries Development in Qinghai Province by I.G. Dunn Fisheries Development Consultant

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 1990

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.   INTRODUCTION AND TERMS OF REFERENCE

2.   ITINERARY AND WORK PROGRAMME

2.1   Itinerary

2.2   Work programme

3.   PRESENT STATUS OF THE LAKE INVESTIGATION TEAM

3.1   General comments

3.2   Personnel

3.3   Accommodation

3.4   Road transport and survey vessel

3.4.1   Road transport

3.4.2   Survey vessel

3.5   Equipment

3.6   Administrative issues

4.   PROJECT INPUTS

4.1   Team activities

4.1.1   River sampling

4.1.2   Lake sampling

4.1.3   Data assessment and handling

4.1.4   General comments

4.2   Training

4.3   Equipment installation, commissioning and use

5.   PROJECT WORK PROGRAMME

5.1   Section 1: Data handling

5.2   Section 2: Equipment

5.3   Section 3: Survey vessel

5.4   Section 4: Survey of lake and river benthos

5.5   Section 5: Experimental fishing

5.6   Section 6: Commercial catch data

APPENDICES

Appendix 1.   Repairs, maintenance and outstanding modificatiions to the research vessel

Appendix 2.   Preparation and management of the research vessel

Appendix 3.   Computer analysis of fish length-weight measurements

Appendix 4.   Computer analysis of lake profiler data