Hydrology 4 January 2005 Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 1. Hydrology Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 1. January 2005 5 Hydrology 6 January 2005 Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 1. Hydrology Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 1. January 2005 7 Fisheries 14 18 13 16 12 Catc h 11 14 10 12 9 10 8 Catch (000 tonnes) Water Level 7 8 Average Water level over 30 days (m) 6 6 5 4 4 1995-6 1996-7 1997-8 1998-9 1999-0 2000-1 2001-2 2002-3 2003-4 Year 8 January 2005 Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 1. Fisheries Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 1. January 2005 9 Fisheries 12 10 8 6 Water Level (m) 4 2 0 1/1/95 1/1/96 31/12/96 31/12/97 31/12/98 31/12/99 30/12/00 30/12/01 30/12/02 30/12/03 10 January 2005 Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 1. Fisheries techniques Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 1. January 2005 11 Fisheries techniques 12 January 2005 Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 1. Fisheries techniques Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 1. January 2005 13 Biology Siluridae Siluriformes Mastacembelidae Soleidae Cynoglossidae Anguillidae 14 January 2005 Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 1. Biology Syngnathidae Notopteridae Batrachoididae Betta splendens Ariidae Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 1. January 2005 15 Biology Polynemidae Gobiidae 16 January 2005 Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 1. Fisheries Management Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 1. January 2005 17 Fisheries Management 18 January 2005 Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 1. Fisheries folklore Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 1. January 2005 19 Fisheries folklore 20 January 2005 Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 1. Fish biology Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 2. January 2005 21 Fish biology Zeb Hogan 22 January 2005 Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 2. Women in fisheries Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 2. January 2005 23 Women in fisheries 24 January 2005 Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 2. Women in fisheries Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 2. January 2005 25 Fishing techniques 26 January 2005 Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 2. Fishing techniques Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 2. January 2005 27 Fisheries staff 28 January 2005 Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 2. Information products New information products An Introduction to Cambodia's Inland A new CD - Fisheries Information in the Fisheries Lower Mekong Basin Cambodia relies heavily on its The Fisheries Programme has natural resources and agricultural produced many publications, land to provide food and livelihood databases, maps and photos covering for its 12 million people. Among the fisheries of the Mekong. Much of it the most vibrant of these is dispersed, having been published in renewable natural resources are various places and over an extended the inland fisheries, which provide period. Now, for the first time, we have compiled the income and food security for great majority of these publications in electronic form, millions of people. This report and produced them on one CD. synthesises much of the relevant research on Cambodia's fisheries. Its easy-to-read The Fisheries Information in the Lower Mekong Basin style is complemented by numerous attractive CD-ROM has been compiled to provide a photographs comprehensive research and educational resource for scientists, researchers and all those interested in the Mekong Development Series No. 4, November 2004, fisheries of the Lower Mekong Basin. 56 pages. US$5.00 The CD offers a vast range of information produced by the Mekong River Commission's Fisheries Programme Distribution and Ecology of Some and its counterparts including approximately 300 Important Riverine Fish Species of the technical papers and reports produced over the past 10 Mekong River Basin years. It contains nine databases related to catch assessment and five databases related to migration and spawning. Each database has its own manual This new report complements an and/or data dictionary. There is also a selection of earlier report on fish migrations photos on fishing activities in the Mekong. (Technical Paper No 8), which provided an overview of the A bibliography section provides references for a general patterns of fish migrations substantial collection of fisheries related papers and and their significance for books. management. This report provides more detailed information of 40 Users can also access and explore18 pre-made maps key species which are significant using the ArcReader, GIS software provided. in the Mekong River fishery. For each species it provides notes on distribution, feeding, Publication of this CD is part of the Mekong River size, population structure, critical habitats, life cycle Commission's ongoing campaign to promote and its importance in fisheries. awareness of the issues surrounding the fisheries of the Lower Mekong Basin. MRC Technical Paper No. 10, May 2004. 116 pages. US$5.00 December 2004. US$5.00 Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 2. January 2005 29 Information products Fishing Gears in Songkhram River Basin Freshwater Fish Larvae Mr Keeree Kohanantakul, Thailand Knowledge of freshwater fish Department of Fisheries, has larvae is important for fisheries documented the fishing gears of since it is the fundamental for the Songkhram River in a new aquaculture and management of book. Many fishing gears used in aquatic resources. One of the the Songkhram River are based on leading researchers in the field is local knowledge built up over Dr Apichart Termvidchakorn, from centuries. Their designs and use the Thailand department of reflect knowledge of fish behaviour, Fisheries, who has produced the including feeding and movements book Freshwater Fish Larvae of associated with weather and moon phases, as well as Thailand. It contains basic local hydrological conditions. In compiling the information on reproduction, biology and classification information in the book, the author wanted to inform of freshwater fish larvae. It will be a valuable resource new generations of the initiative shown by their book for researchers, students and others who are ancestors who invented and constructed fishing gears interested in the freshwater fisheries of Thailand. which do not over-exploit fish stocks like some of the Soft cover, 130 pp, in Thai. modern fishing gears. This book has photos of all gears and information on their use. Available from: Inland Fisheries Research and Soft cover, 87 pp, in Thai Development Bureau, Department of Fisheries, Thailand Available from: Inland Fisheries Research and Development Bureau, Department of Fisheries, Thailand or Fisheries Programme, Mekong River Commission Secretariat, Vientiane, Lao PDR. Tonle Sap Watch - a new newsletter The Fisheries Action Coalition Team (FACT) in Cambodia is producing a new newsletter titled "Tonle Sap Watch". It aims to improve understanding about the latest development issues around the Tonle Sap Great Lake in Cambodia. The up-to-date news and articles review what is going on around the Lake and highlight major concerns and issues arising from development programs that might affect the richness of biodiversity, cultural and natural resources of this region. The newsletter is available electronically at www.fact.org.kh Hard copies can be obtained from The Fisheries Action Coalition Team, PO Box 2295, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 30 January 2005 Catch and Culture Volume 10, No. 2. Mekong Fisheries Index Mekong Fisheries Index Bangkok pushing for ban on trade in Irrawaddy said. The problems being experienced on the Mekong dolphins were in the areas of Mukdahan, Nakhon Phanom and Bangkok Post. May 6, 2004 Sakon. Thailand is lobbying for support from other ASEAN member states and Australia for a ban on trading in rare Irrawaddy dolphins, now under the threat of ADB to study poverty in Mekong region extinction. The deputy chief of the Marine and Coastal United Press International, 4 August 2004 Resources Department has called on the countries to The Asian Development Bank says it will be conducting back its proposal to ban trading in Irrawaddy dolphins a survey on the impact of economic integration on the (Orcaella brevirostris), a protected species under greater Mekong region. The Manila-based ADB said it Appendix II of Cites (Convention on International Trade has been granted $750,000 for the study by the in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). The Netherlands to examine how the poor in the region Appendix II status means the sale of a listed animal is have been affected by the economic boom in the cross- possible with a certificate from a relevant state agency. border areas of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and In order to ban the sale completely, the animal must be Vietnam. listed on Appendix I of Cites. Climate change will have catastrophic effect on key Mekong Delta to become biggest aquatic producer rivers: study Vietnam News Agency, 31 July 2004 Agence France Press. August 2004 The Vietnamese Government's 2001 goal of expanding PARIS (AFP) - Climate change will have a disastrous the Mekong Delta's aquaculture area to more than effect on the flow of rivers that provide water for most 700,000ha and its annually netted output to 1.7 million of Earth's cities, it was reported. Rising levels of carbon tonnes by 2005 looks set to be exceeded. Forecasts dioxide pollution, caused by the unbridled burning of are now predicting output of 1.8 million tonnes of oil, coal and gas, will warm the troposphere, the lowest aquatic products including 250,000 tonnes of shrimp. layer of the world's atmosphere, in addition to the land This makes up 60 per cent of the country's total aquatic and seas, New Scientist says. In a computer model that output. The output is expected to rise to two million factors in these changes, Princeton University tonnes, including 400,000 tonnes of shrimp, by 2010.