Date:
1-10
July 2014
Venue:
Sakon Nakhon Province, Thailand
Development
Objectives:
1. Provincial/Local Fisheries Officers will have opportunities on the job
training in establishing fisheries management approach in inland fisheries,
including community fisheries is practiced widely which is an implication of
how to operating fisheries management plan by themselves.
2. Through implementation of this project, useful knowledge and lessons on
the promotion of Inland Fisheries community-based resources management will be
obtained, which will be applicable to other ASEAN member countries.
Immediate
Objectives:
1. Fisheries officers understand the situation of Nam Oon Dam, on problem
and needed from fisheries community; and
2. Fisheries community understand their resources situation, and how to
make management measures to be sustainable; and
3. Fisheries community and fisheries officers aware the important of
co-management, community based resources management and right-based management;
and
4. Fisheries community of Nam Oon Dam has committee as a network for
autonomous fisheries management.
Results
6 SEAFDEC’s staffs and 6
DOF’s staffs from head quarter and Management unit of Nam Oon Dam were meeting
at Nam Oon Dam, the Department of Irrigation. Mr. Boonsong Phanchaiphum, Head
of Management unit of Nam Oon Dam, presented on the objectives of project, the
result of local workshop, work plan of three year (2013-2015), and explain more
on the objective of this trip. The project is namely “Strengthen the
participation on integrated fisheries management at Nam Oon Dam”. The objectives
were 1) to manage fisheries resources in the Nam Oon Dam by co-management approach,
and 2) to be pilot site on co-management approach of local communities and
agency concern in the Nam Oon Dam. For base line survey, there are 22 main
communities in 8 Sub-Districts, which near Nam Oon Dam. The total of fishers
who registered with Management unit (DOF) are 384 fishers. The survey was
designed to interview 30-40% of fishers (full-time and part-time fishermen)
around Nam Oon Dam. In addition, we plan to have a meeting with 8 communities
for fisheries management in the evening. There were three main issues for the
meeting, 1) agreement on problem and solution with each community, 2)
representative selection of each community, and 3) others problem from each
community.
Base
line Survey around Nam Oon Dam
Base line survey was conducted by interviewing the fishers in 22
communities around Nam Oon Dam, which located within 5 District covering 8
Sub-district namely: Rae, Nanai, Nongbua, Nongpling, Nikomnam-oon, Kudhai,
Warichaphum and Plahlo. The questionnaire compose of four parts: 1) General
information, 2) Fisheries sector, 3) Problems and solution on fisheries, and 4)
Opinion on fisheries co-management. Most fishers engage in fishery and
agriculture. They operate paddy field, rubber tree and cassava. The main
purposes of fishery are source of income and consuming. Furthermore, the main
fishing gear is gill net and fish trap. The total number of fishers interviewed
is 139 fishers. In addition, there are 5 middlemen from Dong Kham pho, Huay Bun
and Ban Klang community were interviewed to clarify on fish distribution in Nam
Oon Dam area. The result of base line survey will be shown general information of
fishermen, situation of fisheries resources, the fish market system, and the problems.
Meeting
in the Communities in Nam Oon Dam area
The meeting was organized in each 8 communities and aimed to build awareness
on the importance of co-management, make understand on the conservation area in
Nam Oon Dam and select the fisheries community representatives to be the Inland
Fisheries Management Committee in Nam Oon Dam for establishment a network on Fisheries
Management.
Firstly, the meeting started with presentation of fisheries officers on the
problems which was found in Nam Oon Dam as well as the ways to solve the problems
that consist of 1) To collect fishing fee from fishers outside community
whenever they would do fishing in the community, 2) To establish conservation
area for fish habitat, 3) patrolling the illegal fishing especially Bug Lift
net fishing. After that, the representatives from 8 communities namely: Thai
Charoen, Dong Kham pho, Kud ta-kap, Na Chouk, Nong Pauu, Khok Sung, Ban Klang
and Nong Pling were selected, totally there are 18 representatives.
In addition, DOF will organize the meeting to select the representatives
from another 14 communities. After completed of selecting representative from 22
communities around Nam Oon Dam, DOF and SEAFDEC will invite all of
representatives to have a meeting and discussion on work plan and regulations
for fisheries management in Nam Oon Dam. This activity plan to held in November
2014 at Nam Oon Dam.
