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.
2002

  FAO/RAP, 2002. Building Awareness in Aspects of Fishery Statistics, Stock Assessment and Management: Proceedings of the “Regional Training Workshop on the Use of Statistics and Other Information for Stock Assessment”. FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand. RAP Publication 2002/27, 96 pp. The document includes a brief account of the fishery statistics programme undertaken by the FAO Fishery Information, Data and Statistics Unit (FIDI). Catch statistics from the FAO database are provided...

2001

Nine out of every ten of the world's 30 million people who make a living directly from fishing live in Asia and some 80 percent of them are small-scale fisherfolk. However, the food and livelihood needs of a growing population are running up against limited fishery resources, which are fast depleting in most coastal regions of Asia. This publication contains the results of a study of small-scale fishery along Thailand's Andaman Sea coast, which...