Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission

Marine capture fisheries

This is a curated collection of technical documents that are relevant to marine capture fisheries in the Asia-Pacific region. This are technical outputs of APFIC workshops or the APFIC Secretariat. There are also FAO publications relevant to the APFIC region.
2006

Maguire, J.-J.; Sissenwine, M.; Csirke, J.; Grainger, R.; Garcia, S.The state of world highly migratory, straddling and other high seas fishery resources and associated species. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No. 495. Rome: FAO. 2006. 84p.This document describes highly migratory fish stocks, straddling fish stocks, and stocks of other high seas fishery resources and the fisheries for them, including information on their state of exploitation. About 200 species have been identified as being fished on...

2005

Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC) regional workshop on low value and trash fish This publication is the proceedings of the workshop on low value and "trash fish" in the Asia-Pacific region convened in Hanoi, Viet Nam from 7 to 9 June 2005. The workshop was attended by 70 experts from APFIC member countries and from fishery organizations in the region. Trash fish is a broadly used term for fish species that by virtue of their small...

2005

Collected Papers of the APFIC Regional workshop on "LOW VALUE AND TRASH FISH IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION", Hanoi, Viet Nam, 7- 9 June 2005 This document contains the background papers presented at the APFIC Regional Workshop on "Low value and 'trash fish' in the Asia-Pacific Region" convened in Hanoi, Viet Nam 7-9 June 2005. The term "trash fish" is an inadequate term to describe the range of issues and different relative importance of the fish...