Indigenous
Fisheries Development and Management
Lao PDR
Australian Mekong Resource Centre
Home : About the project
Lao PDR
Australian Mekong Resource Centre
Home : About the project
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Indigenous
Fisheries Development and Management
Lao PDR Australian Mekong Resource Centre Home : About the project |
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About the project The
two-year Indigenous Fisheries and Management Project (IFDMP) commenced
in February 1997. The project was designed as an applied research collaboration
between the Department of Livestock and Fisheries (DLF), Lao PDR, and
the Australian Mekong Resource Centre (AMRC), University of Sydney,
Australia. IFDMP is supported by the Australian Centre for international
Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and the international Development Research
Centre (IDRC). It follows support for study of biological aspects of
mainstream fisheries in southern Lao PDR by IDRC through the DLF from
1992 - 1996, during which time data were collected on fish migrations
during the main wet and dry season migratory periods. |
 Prachit Noraseng |
IFDMP has been coordinated from the Champassak Provincial Livestock and Fisheries Office (PLFO) and has included personnel from PLFO under the direction of Mr Prachit Noraseng, the Kilometre 8 Fisheries Station, the Sanasomboun District Agriculture and Forestry Office, the Southern Agricultural College, key village leaders, and three outside research collaborators, all of whom speak and read Lao: Dr Philip Hirsch from University of Sydney who has provided direction and advice on the integrated research approach, Ms Kaneungnit Tubtim who has given key input on the community-based natural resource management research methodology and other social science approaches, and Mr Terry Warren who has given key methodological and training input on biological aspects of the fishery systems under study. Mr Pierre Dubeau, a CUSO volunteer with DLF, helped to design several databases. |
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Key project objectives The overall objective of IFDMP is to develop a systematic understanding of biological amd socio economic aspects of local fisheries in a diverse part of the Mekong system, in order to enhance the basis for extension and policy-based interventions directed at efficient and sustainable utilization of freshwater fisheries in support of local people's livelihoods. IFDMP sought to achieve this objective by extending study of indigenous fisheries in two main ways from the earlier work referred to above. First, it deliberately sought to study fisheries environments beyond the Mekong mainstream, in order to gain a fuller understanding of the key fishery system parameters associated with diverse "aqua-ecosystems". Second, it sought to give much more attention than hitherto to the social, economic, cultural and management aspects of local fishery systems. An integrated natural and social science research approach was developed. |
 Research team and villagers at Nong Sanam |
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