Ongoing Projects
Completed Projects

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 – 2024
Donor/Sponsor :Training Department
Project Participating Country(ies) : Thailand

USAID DOI International Technical Assistance Program (ITAP)

Total Duration : 2023 – 2024
Donor/Sponsor : USAID/RDMA through DOI-ITAP
Project Participating Country(ies) : SEAFDEC Member Countries

Implementing the Lower Mekong Fish Passage Initiative in Cambodia, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Total Duration : 2023 – 2024
Donor/Sponsor : USAID/RDMA through DOI-ITAP
Project Participating Country(ies) : Cambodia, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Completed Projects

Sustainable Utilization of Fisheries Resources and Resources Enhancement in Southeast Asia

Total Duration : 2020 – 2024
Donor/Sponsor :Japanese Trust Fund (JTF)
Project Participating Country(ies) : SEAFDEC Member Countries

Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Enhancing National Capacities to Eliminate IUU Fishing in Southeast Asia

Total Duration : 2020 – 2024
Donor/Sponsor : Japanese Trust Fund (JTF))
Project Participating Country(ies) : SEAFDEC Member Countries

Small-scale Fisheries Management for Better Livelihood and Fisheries Resources

Total Duration : 2020 – 2024
Donor/Sponsor : Japanese Trust Fund (JTF)
Project Participating Country(ies) : SEAFDEC Member Countries

Responsible Fishing Technology and Practice

Total Duration : 2020 – 2024
Donor/Sponsor : Japanese Trust Fund (JTF)
Project Participating Country(ies) : SEAFDEC Member Countries

Gender Dimension in the Value Chain of Small-Scale Fisheries & Aquaculture in Southeast Asia

Total Duration : January 2020 to June 2021
Donor/Sponsor : The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Project Participating Country(ies) : SEAFDEC Member Countries

Establishment and Operation of a Regional System of Fisheries Refugia in the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand

Total Duration : 2016 – 2020
Donor/Sponsor : Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Project Participating Country(ies) : Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam

Implementing the Lower Mekong Fish Passage Initiative in Cambodia, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Total Duration : 2018 – 2020
Donor/Sponsor : USAID – DOI
Project Participating Country(ies) : Cambodia, Thailand, Viet Nam and Lao PDR

The Oceans and Fisheries Partnership (USAID Oceans)

Total Duration : May 2015 – May 2020
Donor/Sponsor : U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID Oceans)
Project Participating Country(ies) : SEAFDEC Member Countries, CTI-CFF Member Countries

Strategies for Trawl Fisheries By-catch Management (REBYC-II CTI)

Total Duration : 2011 -2014
Donor/Sponsor : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Project Participating Country(ies) : Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam