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Day 1 :

  • Freshwater Ecosystems | Oceanography and Study | Coastal Zone Management | Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosystems | Oceans and Climate change | Coastal Recreation | Marine Biodiversity | Ocean and Coastal policy | Estuaries and Estuarine ecosystem | Coral Reefs and Coastal Protection
Location: Seleter Room 1, Level 3
Speaker

Chair

Oleg Makarynskyy

Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia

Session Introduction

Ho-Shong Hou

I-Shou University, Taiwan

Title: The Survey and Design of Proposed Harbour of Coastal Shipping System In Taiwan Coastal Zones

Time : 14:10 -14:40

Speaker
Biography:

Dr. Hou worked for three years as a hydraulic laboratory director and chief research engineer with the Taichung Harbor Project, a man-made deep-water port construction on the West Coast of Taiwan. In 1976, Dr. Hou received his Ph.D. in civil and coastal engineering at the University of Florida. He then worked as the Director of the Graduate Institute of Harbor and Ocean Engineering at the National Taiwan Ocean University, and as an adjunct professor of the Institute of Naval Architecture at National Taiwan University.Dr. Hou subsequently became the Deputy Director of the Harbor Research Institute in Taichung for the following five years, whilst maintaining his two professorships. Soon after he accepted and offer to become the division director (and afterword Deputy Director-General) of the Institute of Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC), positions he held for a total of 12 years. In 1995, he was promoted to Director-General of Department of Railways and Highways within the MOTC.In light of his outstanding engineering and administration background and achievements Dr. Hou was in December 1998 invited by then Mayor of Kaohsiung to serve as Deputy Mayor. In this high responsibility role he was in charge of all municipal infrastructure development projects, and was also subsequently appointed to the position of Chief Commissioner of the Kaohsiung City Election Commission. Dr. Hou is a registered civil and hydraulic engineer, and an active member of American Society of Civil Engineers. Dr. Hou was the President of PACON (2002-2008) International and a Life Member. Dr, Ho-Shong Hou obtained  ACOPNE(Academy of Coasta, Ocean, Port& Navigation Engineers) granted the status of “ Diplomate” in the specialty of “ Coastal Engineering”by the Academy of Coastal, Ocean,Port & Navigation Engineers in July 17, 2014. He is currently Professor of I-Shou University and also Predident of Kaohsiung Southern Taiwan Industry Technology Association

Abstract:

Taiwan Coastal zones have a lot of functions,especially offshore eastern Orchid Island and Green island of richful marine ecological life—deep sea fishing, hot spring spa around island coastal zones and beautiful ecological biology. There are belong to non-polluted sea area. Passengers of visiting and touring Offshore Islands become more and urgent. Demand of t Exceptransportation ships for people 500-1000 each trip is necessary instead of aircraft of 12 seats or 19 seats. MOTC need to pan for more passengers and more luggage even transportation vehicle for carrying to offshore islands using.. Therefore marine traffic ship is currently necessary. The design of the proposed port and wharf area are then chosen for Survey and design. Taitung port ( Fu-Gang), Lanyu Island( Kai-Yen port) and Green Island( Nan Liaw port) are tentatively pointed for field survey and preliminary planning and design. Owing to the mutual influence of shipping operation, industry distribution and government policy, the local long distance container transport has become a serious problem of highway transportation system. After the forthcoming opening of container terminal of Taipei Port, the container mainline will be connected to Taipei port.The The development of coastal container shipping will transfer part of the container flow from road transportation to sea borne transportation. The congestion of highway will hence reduced and improve our living quality. The escalation of the port service quality in the northern port of Taiwan will be positive impact to the operation of the coastal container shipping industry. Except improvement of the port service quality of northern Taiwan.,The oceanographic condition of northern port is heavily affected coastal container shipping quality. Therefore the northern port is selected as the field survey and design of proposed harbour of coastal shipping system. Winds(The whole year Wind Rose Analytical Diagram) Wave measurement. Boring of foundation earth condition.( soil test) and design of proposed harbour breakwaters and wharves are presented in this paper. The coastal shipping for cargoes(involve container) and passengers(involve luggage) transportation for offshore islands are well planned.

Lindelani.S Mudau

Department of Environmental Affairs, Cape Town, South Africa

Title: Coastal Vulnerability and Climate change Adaptations
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Biography:

Marietta Albina has completed her Master's degree on Fisheries Technology major in Aquaculture Technology as her field of specialization at SSU-College of Fisheries and Marine Sciences and presently assigned as faculty researcher at the same university at the office of the Vice President for Planning, Research and Extension Services

Abstract:

The study was conducted to gather first hand data on the feasibility of oyster hatchery in the Philippines specifically in Samar as one of the primary producers of oysters in Region VIII, Visayas area.  Induced spawning Philippine cupped oyster Crassostrea iredali Faustino, 1932 through thermal shock was investigated. Five (5), temperatures was tested namely; 40oC, 30oC, 27oC, 20oC, and 15oC. A pre-conditioning protocol was established. Oyster’s length ranging from 9.6 to 12.6cm spawned effectively when exposed to higher temperatures compared to lower temperatures. Induced spawning was effective at 30oC compared to 27oC treatments which spawned constantly over 5 runs. 40oC was lethal to the experimental animal. No success in stimulating spawning in cold temperatures at 20oC and 15oC was observed. Spawning rates was at 1,338,034 cells/650ml/female in 30oC, and 825,735 cells/650ml/female in 27oC respectively, and did differ significantly at (P>0.05). Immersal periods were shorter in 30oC at 1.82 hours compared to 27oC at 2.05 hours which differ statistically at (P>0.05). Fertilized eggs produced from 30oC was better in terms of survival or egg density per hour from fertilized egg to trocophore stage compared to that of produced at ambient temperature 27oC.

Speaker
Biography:

Has over 40 years experience in Biological and Environmental problems in Tropical and sub-tropical Ecosystems , Pollution Control and Management. Being a Founder head of Marine Science Department , Technical Advisor and Consultant he had participated and contributed in solving many Environmental problems . Since his graduation in 1965 he assisted and then managed several academic university undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Natural History Marine Biology and Applied Ecology . From  1975 till now he is running and conducting researches on the Mediterranean and  the Indo-pacific seas with special interest to the Reef problems  in the Red Sea and adjacent coasts . As the Director of many Ph.D. Theses he has a very distinguished students in Egypt and Abroad. Member in many scientific societies in Europe ,having good contact with  the scientific institutions visited in USA, Australia  , Europe and Arab  countries. Participant  of many National & International Scientific Congresses Workshops and Symposia. Author of 118 Research works , Scientific or Environmental Reports ,Theses and Notes. Published and Preparing some books in English and Arabic

Abstract:

The Egyptian Mediterranean coastal area lies between  Sallom  west and Rafah East, about 1100km, is enjoying high an economic value and ecological variability . They offer a wide variety of valuable habitats and ecosystem services that have always attracted humans and human activities. Egypt has a promising plan for the management of Mediterranean coastal area including the improvement of fisheries and aquaculture . Macro-phytes provides the fuel of life to the coastal ecosystems . Substrates , Salinity , water temperature and the Water transparency are the most important factors controlling the Marine Algal Biodiversity.

Environmental conditions are variable within the 100m depth of the water along the Egyptian coast . It is closer to the shore to the west and the distance gradually increases to the east. At Port Said it is furthest from the shore and further east it becomes closer again. This is caused by the alluvial cone that has built up in front of the mouth of the Nile in the Delta area. So the macro-phyte community structures are variable . Although there were many works on the coastal vegetation , the marine macro-phytes were scarcely and occasionally explored . Many lists had been published from Alexandria , some from Port-Said but still the image of distribution along the western and Sinai  coasts are vague. We investigated the floristic elements and vegetation types in terms of species composition as well as diversity and adaptation in the different environmental conditions along the coast of Egypt on the Mediterranean . Seasonal field investigations, observations  and collections of Seaweeds ,Sea-grasses and associated Blue-Greens  were carried out in the Western Egyptian coastal area(2000-2010). About 410 Taxa ; 30.Blue greens and 380 Seaweeds were encountered in this work. Comparison and analysis of data collected ,with occasional collections as well as previously recorded data and measurements demonstrates 5 Eco-zones for the distribution of benthic vegetation along the Egyptian Mediterranean Coast. The 5 zones are different in the environmental conditions supporting life , reproduction and distribution of Seaweeds as well as their diversity. 5 species of Sea-grasses had been encountered in this study for their support of life to many epiphytic algal species as well as the Blue Greens inhabitants in their meadows. These findings helped in drawing a good picture on the diversity and distribution of macro-phytes in time and space , quantitatively and qualitatively  . The resulted lists with the knowledge of the dominant currents gave an idea of  the possibility of migration for many species from the western basin via the Tunisian and Libyan coasts. This can contribute to the knowledge, and development for best practices in managing coastal zones in the Egyptian  Mediterranean .

Speaker
Biography:

Renato C. Diocton has his expertise in assessment and evaluation in improving the coastal zone and marine protected areas.. He has been involved several project on coastal aquaculture and fisheries biology particularly on marine biodiversity. Recent project was on the use of square mesh windows and tortoise shape of mesh in cod end of shrimp trawl fisheries. He has been involved in the promotion of Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries management (EAFM) to local government units in the Samar province to substitute the traditional tool to fisheries management that is Coastal Resource Management to allow new tools to  manage complex ecosystem lie the Samar Sea. Code of conduct on responsible fisheries (CCRF) is one of the major activities in the near future that is to be implemented by the university.

Abstract:

The study was conducted to determine and evaluate the effectiveness of square and tortoise type windows on shrimp trawl with an aim to minimize and regulate the bycatch within shrimp trawlers in Samar Sea. Results showed that there is no statistically significant difference in escapement or bycatch reduction using square mesh and tortoise shaped windows in the codend (P≤0.05). Bycatch forms an average 24% of the total catch at a relative fishing efficiency of 4.7 kg per hour of towing. Dominant species exploited was from the family Leiognathidae (slipmouths), forming 71% of the total catch when using the two window types. Although statistically not significant, we recommend using the tortoise shaped window which has a higher mean length escapement compared to the square mesh window. Its tortoise shaped mesh opening favors escapement of deep bodied fishes such as slipmouth. It could as well increase fish survival after escapement due to its shape that reduces contact to the window as fish escapes.

  • Special Session
Location: Grill 3182 Restaurant
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Biography:

This paper presents the outcomes of a sensitivity study aimed at assessing suspended sediment concentrations from dredge disposal operations. The study was focused at a near-shore area of southern New South Wales. The bathymetry of the area is typical for the region with a relatively steep slope and depths up to 80 m within 5 km offshore. A curvilinear, three-dimensional hydrodynamic model was developed to properly describe the modelling domain and oceanographic processes within it.  The domain incorporated a 5-meter thick surface water layer and for a 10-meter thick near-bottom water layer, both required for further detailed assessments of suspended sediment transport and diffusion and models’ sensitivity. To provide the open-ocean boundary conditions to the three-dimensional hydrodynamic model, two sources of information were used: space varying tidal constituent data and regional-scale, three-dimensional ocean currents. It was assumed that the used open boundary forcing realistically reflected existing oceanographic conditions in the project area for the modelling period. A three-dimensional disposal plume model was then used to evaluate impact zones and exceedances from periodic dumping operations. The modelled sediments consisted of fine fractions of silt and clay. The obtained results demonstrated that using tides only, tides and wind, or currents and tides and wind as the forcing for hydrodynamic and then sediment transport models essentially changes the exceedance map configuration. The outcomes of this study emphasise that any model, independently of how plausible the forcing functions are, needs to be properly calibrated and validated based on the field monitoring data from the area of interest.

Abstract:

Dr.Oleg Makarynskyy has over 25 years’ experience and extensive skills in the fields of ocean and coastal program development and project management, numerical modelling, data analysis, as well as quantitative project risk assessments. His professional history embraces climate studies using earth system models; studies of sensitivities of wave and hydrodynamic models; wind, wave and current hindcast, prediction, data assimilation, and model validation studies. In consultation with industry and public stakeholders over the course of the projects, Oleg has been designing and conducting research field campaigns, hydrodynamic and hydrocarbon spill assessments, pollutant discharge and dredging studies.

  • YRF Session
Location: Seleter Room 1, Level 3

Session Introduction

SEOWEON Jo

Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, Seoul, Korea

Title: Management of Industrial Wastewater Ocean Discharge in Korea

Time : 16:15 -16:45

Speaker
Biography:

Seoweon Jo has completed her Master from INHA University in Korea and working for Korea Institute of Industrial Technology as a researcher. Her main job is to support SMEs to well comply national/international environmental regulations through diverse program such as regular education, seminars, international workshops etc. Also, she is doing on-line/off-line cunsultation regarding environmental regulations, especially chemical regulations for the companies.

Abstract:

In August 2016, Korean press media released the news highlighting the discharge of hazardous chemicals from power plant into surfaces waters of the sea in Ulsan area. The power plant used antifoaming agent which contains hazardous substance(dimethylpolysiloxane) to reduce the formation of foam for cooling system. Ministry of Maritime Affaires and Fisheries in Korea announced that the plant violate the law(Marine Environment Management) because Dimethylpolysiloxane(PDMS) is a prohibited substance to discharge into the sea as a Noxious Liquid Substances by MARPOL 73/78. However, there is no standard to apply as a noxious liquid substance and no one knows the power plant is in the scope of Marine facilities of that law. ME(Ministry of Environment) and MOTIE(Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy) argued it is uncertain how to discharge and there is no standards to apply. In this reason, MOTIE & KITECH started feasibility study research of the regulations. This follow up study investigated how treat and discharge wastewater containing hazardous chemicals from a facility, especially, power plants and companies in shore line. The primary objective is to find a reasonable method to make standards related in discharging industrial wastewater

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Nasarullah. MB has completed his Graduation in Environmental and Water Mnagemnet at the age of 21 years from SN College Alathur, Plakkad, Kerala under University of Calicut and postgraduation studies from Kannur University Department of Environmental Studies.

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Expanding coastal developments and Population pressures are one of the major threat to coastal environment in Lakshadweep Islands. The small Islands are greatly effects by sea level rise and climate change which are expected to exert greater pressure on Island ecosystem, exacerbating erosion, degrading habitat and accelerating shoreline retreat in Islands. The Lakshadweep government has made embankment structures such as tetrapods, hollo blocks, and seawalls for the protection of 77 km out of 121.27 km shorelines in Island. Despite wide spread use on all types of shoreline information about the ecological effects of beach ecotone region is quite limited. It is evident to note that the ecological impacts of armoring leads to alterations of coastal seascape and related effects on the depression and connectivity in marine population. It is also result in the fragmentation, degradation and lose of native sedimentary with impact on biodiversity, biotic communities and populations. The armoring structure placed along Kadmat Island showing poor diversity of natural fauna and flora compared to free beaches. Placing of engineered structure parallel to beaches do not contribute anything against erosion check, but accelerated sand movement and restrict accretion in some areas. These structures also contribute the development of alien species by eroding natural species from the biota and creates corridors for hard bottom species. The poor ecosystem diversity and declining abundance of pray resource in armored locations lost the feeding ground of migratory birds. The present study summarized the ecological effects due to the armoring at Kadmat Island Lakshadweep.

  • Marine Pollution | Maritime Civiliztions | Coastal Hazards | Offshore and Maritime Engineering | Coastal Developments | Coastal Resources | Marine Geology and GIS application | Marine Data Management | Marine Refinery
Location: Grill 3182 Restaurant
Speaker

Chair

Mohamed El-Said FARGHALY

Suez Canal University, Egypt

Session Introduction

Vanniarachchy Suraj

Worldview International Foundation, Myanmar

Title: Integrated Coastal Management in South Africa: Achievements and Challenges Over 8 Years of Implementation

Time : 13:40-14:10

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Biography:

Vanniarachchy Suraj Anuradha has over 10 years of experience in international carbon project development and research in the South and Southeast Asian region. He has been involved with research projects related to climate change mitigation and adaptation. He is also involved in the preparation of the Third National Communication (TNC) of Sri Lanka to the UNFCCC. He has worked on blue carbon projects in Myanmar for Worldview International Foundation and has conducted research with academics from the University of Pathein (Myanmar) on blue carbon.

Abstract:

Myanmar is ranked globally, as the second most vulnerable country in the world to extreme weather events over the last 20 years. The country has a coastline exceeding 2,832 km and approximately 785,000 ha of mangrove cover. Mangrove forests comprise 4% of Myanmar’s tree stock, are being destroying at an alarming rate. This research was done in the Thor Heyerdahl Climate Park, a 1,800-acre climate park located in Ayeyarwady Region of Myanmar. Objective of the research was to identify the synergies between mangrove restoration and UN sustainable development goals. It was found that 16 of the 17 SDGs are addressed through a sustainably managed mangrove restoration. It also sequestrated significant amount of carbon. These mangroves in Myanmar can store up to 732 tons of carbon per hectare. Unless the 785,000 ha of mangroves are placed under a protected scheme, over 500 million tons of carbon would release alone from the soil carbon to the atmosphere thus contributing towards global warming. Furthermore this analysis found that replanting 2000 hectares of mangroves would sequestrate over 5.5 million tons of carbon dioxide over a 20 year period. The calculations were based on actual field measurements and IPCC and UNFCCC approved methodologies. Mangroves act as a Green Wall, a Green Foundation, a Green Filter and a Green Habitat and each of this provides immense service against vulnerabilities. Green Wall protects against cyclones, winds and typhoons. Green Foundation protects shorelines from erosion and improves landscape resilience. The Green Filter reduces the saline content of coastal water and lowers damage from salt water intrusion. The Green Habitat provides breeding grounds and sanctuary for rich biodiversity. Therefore it can be concluded that mangroves provide a cost effective yet productive method of climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Ramesh Madipally

National Centre for Earth Science Studies, India

Title: Monitoring of near shore dynamics in southwest coast of India: A video imagery approach

Time : Ramesh Madipally

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Biography:

Ramesh Madipally is currently working as Scientist-B at National Centre for Earth Science Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. He has graduated in Electronics and Communication Engineering and Post-graduated in Geo-informatics. His expertise is in remote sensing and image processing. His interest towards recent developmental studies in coastal management activities lead him to work in the near shore monitoring domain to develop an indigenous video monitoring system for India.

Abstract:

The continuous monitoring of the complex near shore processes is important for scientists and coastal engineers. The near shore domain is being highly dynamic in nature; continuous sampling with traditional in situ sensors is significantly poor as the deployment of instruments is costly and risky. In such environment, remote sensing is a promising tool for measurements, but satellite imagery or aerial photography has its limitations during adverse weather conditions. Hence, optical investigations through video cameras have become a powerful and cost-effective tool for long-term data collection of near shore processes. In view of this, a new coastal monitoring system was established at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, south-west coast of India during September 2016. This system has tremendous scope for being developed into a fully automated coastal monitoring system. The first phase of development deals with database management, pre-processing for lens distortion correction and geo-rectification of video imagery. The rectification is carried out using an open source toolbox ‘ULISES’. The rectified pixel time stacks have been processed for near shore wave analysis. A site-specific transfer function with the pixel time stack data and in situ measurement data is designed using multi taper power spectral density estimate methods. Spectral analysis methods have been used to estimate wave parameters. The computed wave height, mean period and peak frequency corroborates with the measured in situ wave data with a mean bias -0.01 m, 0.14s, 0.0004 Hz and root mean square errors 0.15 m, 1.7 s and 0.010 Hz, respectively. The results of this study are quite encouraging by indicating that video imagery techniques have potential to be adopted as full-fledged coastal monitoring system, which is extremely useful for understanding the coastal hydro-dynamics particularly the surf zone dynamics.

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Ezatollah Ghanavati,

Faculty of geographical sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

Title: Coastal hazard assessment of Makran coast (SE Iran) due to global sea level rise
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Biography:

E. Ghanavati, P.Z. Firouzabadi, A.A. Jangi, S. Khosravi, (2008), Monitoring geomorphologic changes using Landsat TM and ETM+ data in the Hendijan River delta, southwest Iran, International Journal of Remote Sensing 29 (4), 945-959. 

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SE coast of Iran is a part Makran coast stretches about 500 km from border with Pakistan to the strait of Hormoz. This area has great economic and environmental importance and experience rapid development. Global climate changes impact the coast as sea level rise and increasing frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones originated from the Arabian Sea. Vulnerability assessment of coastal areas to flooding and inundation has great importance for sustainable development of the region. This study aims to develop a Coastal Vulnerability index for Makran coast. Using satellite images and filed observations four major geomorphic units are recognized in the Makran coast: (1) sandy and gravely beaches (2) cliffs and rocky shores, (3) low-laying coast including tidal flats and mangrove forest and (4) man maid coast including coastal infrastructures and human settlements. Ten risk variables are defined including, rate of relative sea-level change, coastal elevation, coastal slope, rate of sedimentation and erosion, tidal range, significant wave height, flash floods and storm surge, environmental sensibility and socio-economic sensibility. Geomorphic unit are categorized based on their sensitivity to each risk variable. The result is a vulnerability map that highlights vulnerability degree of each unit to physical, environmental and socio-economic hazards. This study tries to increasing awareness amongst

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Mangroves provide humankind with valuable resources and services. The big decline of mangrove forests in the Philippines was attributed to over-exploitation by coastal dwellers, conversion to agriculture or fishponds and settlement. The efforts of a small group of women to protect a mangrove forest called Ang Pulo in Brgy Quilitisan, Calatagan, Batangas triggered the curiosity of the researcher to conduct this study. The study determined the level of knowledge and awareness (KA) on mangrove resources, services and conservation practices of the local government unit (LGU) of Catalagan, Batangas, the people’s organization (PO) called Palitakan, which was initially composed of 10 women and the local coastal community of Batangas Quilitisan. It also determined the value that these stakeholders ascribe to various mangrove resources. Data was collected using questionnaires. The results showed that LGU, PO and the local community had high to very high level of KA toward mangrove resources, services and conservation practices but the PO had consistently very high level of KA. Their active role in mangrove conservation enabled them to have higher level of KA. The mangrove tree was perceived to have the highest selling price (value) while lowest for seed and seedlings. The perceived selling price of the mangrove resources reflected how the stakeholders value these resources based on their prior knowledge and experiences. They also have very high level of KA on mangrove resources, services and conservation practices.

  • Poster Presentation

Session Introduction

Marietta B. Albina

Samar State University, Philippines

Title: Socio-Economic profile of Oras Bay, Coastal Barangays Oras e. Samar, Philippines
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Biography:

Marietta B. Albina has her expertise in assessment and evaluation in improving the coastal zone and marine protected areas.. She has been involved some projects on coastal aquaculture and fisheries biology particularly on marine biodiversity. She has been involved in the promotion of Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries management (EAFM) to local government units in the Samar province to substitute the traditional tool to fisheries management that is Coastal Resource Management to allow new tools to  manage complex ecosystem lie the Samar Sea. Code of conduct on responsible fisheries (CCRF) is one of the major activities in the near future that is to be implemented by the university. Her other expertise is on the field of red tide monitoring in the Maqueda Bay, Villareal Bay, Samar Seas, Philippines, wherein sampling, monitoring and information dissemination, administering on the precaution  to the public based on the results specially when there is red tide occurrence.

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The study was conducted to evaluate current status of the artisanal fishers in Oras Bay. They analyzed their diminishing fish catch as due to the dwindling coastal resources which is the result of the damaged marine habitats and of overfishing.  They attributed three (3) reasons to their dwindling coastal resources:  unabated destructive and illegal fishing, polluted waters and climate change.  The destructive and illegal fishing still prevalent in their barangays are dynamite fishing, trawl, fish poisoning, the use of compressors in shellfish gathering and illegal quarrying.  Although overfishing was only attributed to the increase in the number of fisherfolks, there were discussions on the “open access” system particularly in the use of coastal municipal waters.  Overfishing also relates to their inability to fish in deep waters due to the lack of appropriate gears and accessories such as payaos. Destructive and illegal fishing are still prevalent because of the lax implementation of fishery laws and the dearth of active fisherfolk associations.  The inactivity of fisherfolk associations is deemed to be the offshoot of the lack of awareness on fishery laws and the dearth of trainings of the fisherfolks and their sectoral organizations.

Speaker
Biography:

Renato C. Diocton has his expertise in assessment and evaluation in improving the coastal zone and marine protected areas.. He has been involved several project on coastal aquaculture and fisheries biology particularly on marine biodiversity. Recent project was on the use of square mesh windows and tortoise shape of mesh in cod end of shrimp trawl fisheries. He has been involved in the promotion of Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries management (EAFM) to local government units in the Samar province to substitute the traditional tool to fisheries management that is Coastal Resource Management to allow new tools to  manage complex ecosystem lie the Samar Sea. Code of conduct on responsible fisheries (CCRF) is one of the major activities in the near future that is to be implemented by the university.

Abstract:

Overall mean ichthyoplankton density at daytime (56 ind/100m3), while taxon richness (family level) higher at nearshore compare to offshore. These results are compared with observed diel patterns in other investigations. Monthly differences in overall egg and larval densities and composition are related to the station location, substrate and other factors. The relative similarity in daytime patterns in stations over deep water suggests that the substrates (seagrass beds and coral reefs) serve as shelters from predation during the daytime. The highest density of fish larvae was the family Bregmaceritidae of 16% identified followed by Apogonidae (pre-flexion) and Mullidae both  shared 14% of the total sampled population in one year. Third place in terms of density was Leiognathidae of 13% of this is dominant in shallow sandy to muddy bottom. Next in rank was the Engraulidae (9%) and Exocoetidae (8%) while Serranidae and Apogonidae (flexion) both got 7%.  Least was Lutjanidae and some unidentified larvae.