Status of Surimi Industry in the Southeast Asia

Fish paste products have long been a part of traditional Asian cuisine, but surimi has become one of the most dynamic commodities in the Asian seafood industry because of recent innovations in production and utilization. Surimi is an intermediate product made from minced fish meat that has been washed, refined, and mixed with cyro-protectants. Although fish paste products have been hand-made for centuries, a process for frozen surimi, invented in 1960 provided the impetus for expanding the industry and surimi markets based on the vast walleye pollock, alaska pollock resources. The Asian surimi industry was under-going a period of rapid change as the Republic of Korea, Thailand, New Zealand, and the United States were increasingly challenging Japan's position as the world's leading surimi producer. The appreciation of the yen and the Japanese exclusion from U.S. and Soviet walleye or Alaska pollock resources, have caused Japanese production to decline from its 1984 peak of 418,000 MT to 320,000 MT in 1989 and decreased to only 132,000 in 1994. Meanwhile, the output of the other four major producing countries has increased from about 26,000 MT to 260,000 MT during the same period. The Korean surimi industry shows the greatest potential for independent growth among the Asian surimi producers, with an output of 60,000 MT in 1989. During this period, Thai industries also has showed considerable growth potential dependent upon the Japanese technical assistance. The success of Thai surimi industry stimulated developments of surimi production in the Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Indonesia. According to rapid growth of surimi industry in Southeast Asian countries, as well as depletion of fisheries resources especially demersal resources, reduction of raw materials may impact to the demand of surimi producers. Therefore under the Asian-SEAFDEC program SEAFDEC/TD proposed to conduct the information collection of economically important species as surimi raw materials in the Southeast Asian. The program was started from 2005 by collecting all information concerns in cooperation with the local fisheries agency and fishery private sectors. Field trip to observe and interview the surimi producers were also performed such as Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and Myanmar. Information from Malaysia mostly based on the questionnaires incooperation with DOF/Malaysia. In this study, the attempt is not only to show the quantity of surimi products in the region, but the linkage between surimi products and raw materials used in each country in comparison with the status of fisheries resources in the region will also analyzed

Light Fishing Boat Detection by VIIRS Low Light Imaging Data in the Inner Gulf of Thailand from October 2015 to September 2016.

The abstract of Light Fishing Boat Detection by VIIRS Low Light Imaging Data in the Inner Gulf of Thailand from October 2015 to September 2016

Data Management System “FishBio” for Small Pelagic Fisheries

"FishBio" is a database application for managing fishery data Output from the application can be easily exported to other fishery analytical software such as FISAT or the other spreadsheet software "FishBio" is designed to be flexible and easy to use, User can identify their own principle fishery information by manually input or import from other spreadsheet file

The Marine Environmental Condition of the Pakklong Sub-district Coastal Area and their Effect on Coastal Aquaculture

A baseline survey on the marine environmental condition of Pakklong sub-district, Pathew District, Chumporn province was conducted between January and October 2002. Physical, chemical and biological parameter data were collected at twelve stations at monthly intervals in the first half period and at bimonthly intervals in the last period. Weather data were obtained on diary basis. The water quality in the study area is suitable for coastal aquaculture, but with special care in the summer season. The physical characteristics of Pathew bay and the properties of the showed that the bay is at risk from blooms of plankton and the accumulation of wastages. Therefore, limitation of aquaculture area and numbers is necessary to prevent damage from plankton blooms or any other pollution events when the load of aquaculture waste exceeds the carrying capacity of the water

Trend of SURIMI Raw Materials in the Southeast Asia

Threadfin bream (Nemipterus spp.) Lizard fish (Saurida spp.) Bigeye (Priacanthus spp.) Croaker (Johnius spp., Pennahia spp.) and Goatfish or Red mullet (Upeneus spp., Parapeneus spp.) are economically important demersal fishes distributed from the coastal area to the continental shelf slope in the Southeast Asian Region. These species are commonly used as raw materials for Surimi manufacture in the region. In 2005 SEAFDEC/Training Department has initially conducted an activity on information collection of economically important species as Surimi raw materials under the Japanese Trust Fund project: Development of Demersal Fishery Resources Living in Un-trawlable Fishing Ground in the Southeast Asia waters. The pre-analysis on the status of Surimi Industry collected in the Southeast Asian countries established linkage between demand of raw materials (Surimi industry) and demersal resources as the supplier. For this reason, it is important to understand the status of demersal resources as surimi raw materials and search for new fishery resources existing in the region

Larval Fish Identification Guide for the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand.

This Larval Fish Identification Guide for the South China Sea an Gulf of Thailand is an important output from the Regional Training Workshop on Larval Fish Identification and Fish Early Life History Science, and it is anticipated that this will serve as a very valuable resource for technical staff in government fisheries departments concerned with the life-cycles of important fish stocks

Upwelling induced by meso-scale cyclonic eddies in the Andaman Sea

The results from a survey on oceanographic phenomena and fishery resources in the Andaman Sea, under the Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management in the Bay of Bengal Project, initiated by members of BIMSTEC (the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic cooperation), revealed the evidence of upwelling. It was observed from shallow pycnocline and high salinity near sea surface. The relationship between surface chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) and upwelling was prominent that Chl-a tended to be high in upwelling areas. Satellite altimetry and the surface geostropic current captured during the same period of the field survey, suggest that upwelling is induced by cyclonic eddies. This phenomenon could be observed on satellite Chl-a image over the Andaman Sea. Further investigations are required to assess their role in oceanographic processes, especially primary productivity, in the Andaman Sea.Proceedings of 4th JSPS-VAST Joint Seminar on 'Coastal Marine Science', Hai Phong, Viet Nam, 26-28 October 2009Oceanograph

Overview of Tuna Purse Seine Fisheries by M.V.SEAFDEC in the Eastern Indian Ocean

Tuna purse seine surveys in the Eastern Indian Ocean have been conducted by MV SEAFDEC of the Training Department of SEAFDEC since 1993. There were 87 fishing operations. The total catches was 1,945.55 tons with average catch 6.53 tons/ fishing days. Catch composition was consisted of skipjack tuna, the most dominant specie caught at 65.56 %, followed by yellowfin tuna at 20.26%, bigeye tuna at 12.82% and other species at 1.36% respectively. The size range of skipjack tuna, yellowfin tuna and bigeye tuna were within range between 31-80, 20-136, 31-122 cm FL. The relative length-weight was determined using allometric equation for skipjack tuna (W=0.000006L3.3067), yellowfin tuna (W=0.00003L2.9175) and bigeye tuna (W=0.00001L3.1699