Stakeholder Meeting in Sri Lanka, May 8, 2013
< Last Update: 15 May 2013 >
Summary
- Venue: Auditorium, NARA, Colombo 15
Stakeholder Meeting of Sri Lanka's prototype was held in Colombo on May 8, 2013. 19 participants from 8 organizations related to fishery (e.g. Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources) are joined the meeting. Dr. K. Arulananthan, Head of Oceanography, NARA opened the floor on behalf of the Chairman of NARA and introduced roles and activities of NARA. Several discussions were followed.
The national needs, present status and future vision of Sri Lanka fishery were shown in the meeting. The participants recognized that further improvement can be made by consideration of classification by seasons and water mass. They also recognized need to keep their effort of collecting fishing boat data to forecast effective fishing depth. In conclusion, they confirmed that information sharing among NARA, DFAR, fishermen and other stakeholders should be continued to apply the results to operational use system. One of the fishing vessel owner showed his appreciation on the results and he said he is a regular user of NARA information send via Fax but he is looking forward to see the implementation of VMS to get better fish forecasting data from NARA. NARA will show the further plan to use the results at the next workshop in ISTS.
Agenda and Presentation Materials
| 9:00 |
Opening (NARA/JAXA) Welcome address (NARA) |
| Speech by JAXA (Mr. Toru Fukuda, Director, EORC/JAXA) | |
| 9:15-9:30 | Introduction to SAFE initiative (Mr. Tomoyuki Nukui, EORC/JAXA) |
| 9:30-9:50 | Introduction of NARA: Role and Research Activities (Dr. K. Arulananthan, NARA) |
| 9:50-10:40 | Sri Lanka Fishery: National needs, stake-holders, present status, and future vision (Ms. Kalyani Hewapathirana, DFAR) |
| 10:40-11:15 | Sri Lanka Fishery Forecasting system and its improvement achieved through SAFE prototype (Mr. Jagath Rajapaksha, NARA) |
| 10:15-11:30 | Experience of SAFE Prototype of Department of Fisheries Thailand: Fish Larvae Mapping (Dr. Yoichi Ishikawa, JAMSTEC) |
| 11:30-11:50 | Discussion about the prototype and future direction (Coordinated by Dr. Lal Samarakoon and Prof. Satsuki Matsumura) |
| 11:50 | Closing (vote of thanks by NARA) |
Photographs
Stakeholder Meeting
Opening Remark from Thailand (Dr. K. Arulananthan, Head of Oceanography, NARA)
Opening Remark from Japan (Mr. Toru Fukuda, Director of Earth Observation Research Center, JAXA)
Introduction to SAFE initiative (Mr. Tomoyuki Nukui, EORC/JAXA)
Sri Lanka Fishery: National needs, stake-holders, present status, and future vision (Ms. Kalyani Hewapathirana, DFAR)
Sri Lanka Fishery Forecasting system and its improvement achieved through SAFE prototype (Mr. Jagath Rajapaksha, NARA)
Experience of SAFE Prototype of Department of Fisheries Thailand: Fish Larvae Mapping (Dr. Yoichi Ishikawa, JAMSTEC)
Discussions
Exchange the Gifts
Group Photo