Ongoing Projects

Enhancement of Regional Cooperation and Human Resource Development to Eliminate IUU Fishing

Total Duration : 2025-2029
Donor/Sponsor : Japanese Trust Fund (JTF)
Project Participating Country(ies) : SEAFDEC Member Countries

Research and Dissemination of Sustainable Fishing Technology

Total Duration : 2025 – 2029
Donor/Sponsor : Japanese Trust Fund (JTF)
Project Participating Country(ies) : SEAFDEC Member Countries

Enhanced Marine Research Capacities to Manage Fisheries Resources
1) System design for Marine Fish Stock Assessment in the Southeast Asian Region
2) Capacity building on marine environment change monitor and assessing their impact on fishery resources
3) Enhancing capacity for the estimating fishery biomass through scientific hydroacoustic surveys

Total Duration : 2025 – 2029
Donor/Sponsor : Japanese Trust Fund (JTF)
Project Participating Country(ies) : SEAFDEC Member Countries

Improving Fishers’ Livelihood and Fisheries Co-management in Inland and Coastal Small-scale Fisheries

Total Duration : 2025 – 2029
Donor/Sponsor : Japanese Trust Fund (JTF)
Project Participating Country(ies) : SEAFDEC Member Countries

Fisheries Resource Survey & Operational Plan for M.V. SEAFDEC 2

Total Duration : Since 2004
Donor/Sponsor : Host Countries of the Survey
Project Participating Country(ies) : SEAFDEC Member Countries

Sustainable Management of Fisheries, Marine Living Resources and
their Habitats in the Bay of Bengal Region for the Benefit of Coastal
States and Communities

Total Duration : 2024–2028
Donor/Sponsor : GEF and Norad
Project Partner(s) : GEF Implementing Agency: FAO Executing Agencies: IUCN and BOBP-IGO
Project Participating Country(ies) : SEAFDEC: Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand
Project Participating Country(ies) : BOBP-IGO: Bangladesh, India, Maldives, and Sri Lanka

ASEAN-JICA Capacity Building Project on IUU Fishing Countermeasures in
Southeast Asia

Total Duration : 2024 – 2027
Donor/Sponsor : ASEAN-Japan Technical Cooperation
Project Partner : Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Project Participating Country(ies) : SEAFDEC Member Countries

Promoting the blue economy and strengthening fisheries governance of the
Gulf of Thailand through the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (GoTFish
Project)

Total Duration : 2023 – 2027
Donor/Sponsor : GEF–International Water (FAO is GEF Agency)
Project Partner(s) : SFP and University of Queensland
Project Participating Country(ies) : Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Promotion on Strengthening of SEAFDEC Visibility and Enhancing Human Capacity Building

Total Duration : Annual
Donor/Sponsor : Training Department
Project Participating Country(ies) : Thailand

Improving of Fisheries Technology and Reduction of the Impact from Fishing Activities

Total Duration : 2023 – 2025
Donor/Sponsor :Training Department
Project Participating Country(ies) : Thailand

Ghost Fishing in a Global South Demonstration Project 

Total Duration : 2024 – 2025
Donor/Sponsor : Institute of Marine Research, Norway
Project Participating Country(ies) :

USAID DOI International Technical Assistance Program (ITAP)

Total Duration : 2023 – September 2025
Donor/Sponsor : USAID/RDMA through DOI-ITAP
Project Participating Country(ies) : SEAFDEC Member Countries