Objective: The Vietnam Ministry of Fisheries and U.S. NOAA Fisheries will be conducting this workshop to document the needs of Vietnam for future research cooperation and planning purposes with international agencies. The main participants will be scientists from the Vietnam Research Institute of Marine Fisheries in Haiphong and those from various science centers of the U.S. NOAA Fisheries. Participants of the Pacific Rim Fisheries Conference are welcome to attend and participate in deliberations of this workshop. The email contact points of this workshop are

Monday March 20, 2006

• Introductions by Vietnam and U.S. Hosts
• Overview of Fisheries Research of the U.S. towards Ecosystem Based Management
• Overview of fisheries research situations in Vietnam, biological and geographical scope
• Research Situations and Survey Needs of Major Fisheries Resource Categories
  • Nearshore demersal and pelagic resources
  • Offshore demersal and pelagic resources
  • Continental slope resources
  • Special cases of Tunas

Tuesday March 21, 2006

• Research Situations and Survey Needs of Other Resource Categories
  • Sea Turtles
  • Coral Reef Ecosystem Assessment and Monitoring
  • Fishery-Oceanography and Ecosystem Investigations
  • Gear Modification Research
• Overview and Wrap-up