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Attending the International Conference on River Connectivity (Fish Passage 2018) and the First Symposium on Hydropower and Fish Management in Albury, New South Wales, Australia. Chief SEAFDEC/IFRDMD, Dr. Arif Wibowo, is present at this…

Sixty  percent  of  global  fish  production  takes  place  in  Asia, and  developing countries produce over 75 percent of that share. Asia accounts for 34 percent of the world’s exports of fish and a staggering 87 percent of all fishery…

Freshwater eels (Anguilla spp.) are catadromous fish, adult migrate from freshwater to the deep sea to spawn and the larvae will return to freshwater to grow. In recent years, there has been growing concern about declining stocks of various…

Under the support from SEAFDEC/JAIF Project, a field trip was conducted to collect data statistics on eel fisheries and also to collect samples of tissues of Anguilla bicolor pacifica for DNA analysis. Regarding to the objectives of the…

To get the understanding pattern of connectivity which is important for managers to figure out the stability of one population which was developed through the activities of this project, under the support from JAIF Project, a field trip was…

SEAFDEC/IFRDMD, with the financial support from Japan Trust Fund (JTF), organized the SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING OF SEAFDEC/IFRDMD on 16 August 2018 in Palembang. The meeting has the aim to address the achievement in 2018 and the proposed activity…

Eels are the main concern of the Indonesian government after Indonesian eels were listed in IUCN redlist, including A. borneensis, A. bicolor, A. intertioris, A. marmorata. Eel fisheries provide tangible economic benefits for fishermen and…

IFRDMD members visited Tigbauan Main Station of AQD on 11-14 July 2018 in connection to SEAFDEC Interagency Coordination Visit. The four members joined the      trip included Chief, Dr. Arif Wibowo, Deputy Chief, Dr. Takuro Shibuno,…

To give updates and report the progress on the achievements and results from baseline survey, regular survey, and assessment the status and trends of tropical Anguillid Eels through various sources of data/information, SEAFDEC organized the…

SEAFDEC secretariat represented by Deputy Secretary-General Mr. Akito Sato, Senior expert and Assistant Project Manager for the Japanese Trust Fund Program Mr. Isao Koya and Researcher from IFRDMD Ms. Ni Komang Suryati attended The…