Outline
Declining of fishery resources has become a major issue in Asia including Japan, with the population increase and economic development. Establishment of protocol of seafood production by aquaculture which does not depend on natural resources is one of the promising solutions to this issue. Seeds for aquaculture are bred from parents and reared massively under artificial conditions to conduct aquaculture not depending on natural resources. in many species. In addition to the protocols for suitable maturation and nutrition for larval culturing, control of infectious diseases are necessary when the scale of seed production become larger. In Japan, where fish farming has been implemented since long ago, seed production technology has been well developed. Utilizing these advanced technologies of Japan, we intend to improve the technology in Southeast Asian countries, and consequently contribute to establish as major seafood producers and suppliers worldwide.
Therefore, in this project, with participation of institutions in five countries, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam in Southeast Asia as counterpart countries, one country concentrates on one target specie, and researchers in each country would conduct their research in cooperation with the Japanese core, TUMSAT and cooperating universities (See Research System). Japanese and the relevant counterpart country experts in the fields of both seed production and disease control would work together in each research team, so that we can develop and improve the protocol of seed The developed protocols for each target species in this project will be transferred to Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC/AQD), an ASEAN research institution, and then disseminated to ASEAN member countries through AQD technical training program. In this project, we focus on five key species in Southeast Asia: mangrove crab (Malaysia), swimming crab (Thailand), slipper lobster (Vietnam), blood cockle (Indonesia) and grouper (Philippines). Members of the participating institutes would meet in the Japanese core TUMSAT or SEAFDEC/AQD in order to extensively discuss the annual activities and results obtained in each year. construct a strong network based on both science and trusting relationship. After establishing principal technology of seed production in this 3-year project, we will step up to develop more advanced technologies, such as marker assisted selection and biological control without using medicine, utilizing this network, which could contribute to increasing productivity of aquaculture in Southeast Asia to be worldwide major producers and suppliers.
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