INTER-GOVERNMENTAL
APEC Working Group on Ocean and Fisheries
- This APEC Working Group promotes the conservation and sustainable use of fisheries resources; promotes sustainable development of aquaculture and habitat preservation; seeks solutions to common fisheries resource management problems and aquaculture disease control; enhances food safety and quality of fish and fisheries products; and promotes sector-specific work relating to trade and investment liberalization and facilitation. It also promotes initiatives to protect the marine environment and its resources and ensure continuing socioeconomic benefits through maintenance of marine environmental quality. It has held meetings on red tide, seafood safety standards, ocean modeling, destructive fishing practices, protection of the coral reef environment, land-based sources of pollution, prevention policies for maritime pollution accidents, decommissioning offshore oil and gas platforms, and other topics.
ASEAN Review of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation (ARBEC)
- ARBEC is “Southeast Asia’s only electronic journal of biodiversity and bio-conservation.”
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Asian Development Bank is a regional, multilateral development financial institution established in 1966 to promote economic and social development in Asian and Pacific countries through loans and technical assistance. ADB’s vision is of a region free of poverty.
Asian Development Bank (ADB) “Regions and Countries”
Asian Development Bank formulates operational strategies for individual countries and regions, including economic, thematic and sector policy analysis. By undertaking country performance reviews, the ADB provides a basis for policy dialogues with the government of its member developing countries.
Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN)
- APN is the Asia-Pacific inter-governmental network to foster research on long-term global changes in climate, ocean and terrestrial systems, and on related physical, chemical, biological and socio-economic aspects, to increase developing country participation in that research, and to strengthen links between the science community and policy makers. It is the parent organization for the Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training, and its regional committees, including South Asia START Regional Committee (SASCOM), Southern Asia Regional Committees for START (SARCS), Temporate East Asia Regional Committee for START (TEACOM), and START Oceania.
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
- Established in 1947 with its headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, ESCAP is the regional development arm of the United Nations for the Asia-Pacific region. With a membership of 62 Governments, 58 of which are in the region, and a geographical scope that stretches from Turkey in the west to the Pacific island nation of Kiribati in the east, and from the Russian Federation in the north to New Zealand in the south, ESCAP is the most comprehensive of the United Nations five regional commissions. It is also the largest United Nations body serving the Asia-Pacific region with over 600 staff.
China Fishery Home Page
- General information on China’s fisheries, including Aquaculture,Fish Processing, Marketing, Fishery Economy, Marine Fishery Resources, Marine Programs, Fishing Insurance, Research Institutes, Laws and Regulations, Academic Journals, and Sino-U.S Programs. Also see China Fisheries.
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
- Established in 1947 with its headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, ESCAP is the regional development arm of the United Nations for the Asia-Pacific region. With a membership of 62 Governments, 58 of which are in the region, and a geographical scope that stretches from Turkey in the west to the Pacific island nation of Kiribati in the east, and from the Russian Federation in the north to New Zealand in the south, ESCAP is the most comprehensive of the United Nations five regional commissions. It is also the largest United Nations body serving the Asia-Pacific region with over 600 staff.
Global Change Impacts Centre for Southeast Asia (IC-SEA)
- IC-SEA aims to assess the impacts of global change, and their implications for the sustainable management of terrestrial ecosystems. This site coordinates a network of institutions and people throughout Southeast Asia providing training courses for scientists, policy makers and resource managers, organizing international scientific meetings and policy-oriented regional workshops, facilitating collaborative research between Spoutheast Asian research centers and all major international programmes and activities dealing with the terrestrial carbon cycle.
Hainan Research Institute for the South China Sea
- Hainan Research Institute for the South China Sea is an academic institute specializing in the South China Sea. Since its establishment in 1996, the institute has yielded research results in various fields including history and geography of the South China Sea, dominion over Nansha archipelago, ocean demarcation, environmental protection and peripheral relation of the South China Sea.
IMB Anti Piracy Center
- Established in 1992, as the Piracy Reporting Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Its job is to record and detail specific attacks and their consequences, investigate incidents of piracy and armed robbery at sea and in port. Another role entails raise awareness of piracy hotspots, and working with national governments on a range of initiatives to reduce and ultimately eradicate attacks against ships.
MIMA – the Maritime Institute of Malaysia,
- Maritime economic studies & ocean industries, Maritime Security & Diplomacy, Ocean Law & Policy, and Coastal & Marine Environment
Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
- NACA began in 1980 as an UNDP/FAO regional project aimed at expanding aquaculture development through regional technical cooperation. 14 Asian governments support joint efforts to develop aquaculture to increase food production, improve rural income and employment, diversify farm production, and increase foreign exchange earning and savings. NACA conducts interdisciplinary research on selected farming systems in participating aquaculture centres; trains core personal for national aquaculture development; and operates a regional information system for development planning research and training.
PEMSEA
- Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia, or PEMSEA, is a joint program between twelve East Asian nations, formed to protect life support systems and enable the sustainable use and management of coastal and marine resources through intergovernmental, interagency, and multisectoral partnerships.
US-Asia Environmental Partnership (US-AEP)
- US-AEP is a regional program of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that promotes sustainable economic growth and improves the quality of life for the people of Asia by working towards cleaner and healthier cities.
Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL)
- Established in 1996 by the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, APCEL works with the World Conservation Union (IUCN)and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to maintain an extensive online environmental legal archive.
Coral Reefs and Mangroves of the World
Energy and Security in the South China Sea
- This website from the University of Oslo Centre for Development the Environment describes a cross-disciplinary study of energy and security policies in the South China Sea region. Part of the Norwegian Network for Pacific Asian Studies, it aims to build competence on economic, diplomatic, political and military relations in the South China Sea region, to provide advice to governments, media and oil companies engaged in the area.
Environmental Change and Security Project (ECSP)
- The Project serves as an information clearinghouse on environment, population and security issues in general, and key environmental issues in China and U.S.-China relations, in particular. The site hosts an on-line discussion group, two publications, the Environmental Change and Security Project Report and the China Environment Series, transcripts of Project meetings, a searchable Virtual Library, and links to related sites.
East-West Center, Honolulu. Research Program on Environment
- The research program focuses on “Urban and Transnational Air Pollution” and “Ecosystems and Governance” in the Asia-Pacific region.
Ex Anambas & The Biodiversity of the South China Sea
- An initiative of the Workshop on Managing Potential Conflicts in the South China Sea, this site includes the reports of the multilateral Technical Working Groups on Marine Scientific Research and on Biodiversity. They were published in The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement Series, No. 8, Biodiversity of the South China Sea, 31 Mar 2000, and No. 11, Scientific Results of the Anambas Expedition 2002, 22 Mar 2004
IMB Piracy Reporting Centre
- This site provides a 24 hour anti-piracy help line and weekly reports on piracy incidents and armed robbery at sea. IMB also helps to locate seized vessels, recover stolen cargoes, assist law enforcement, and help owners and crews of attacked ships. The 24-hour Anti Piracy HELPLINE number is +60 3 2031 0014
Maritime.com
- Marine industry megasite with searchable database.
Reefbase.org
- ReefBase is the world’s premier online information system on coral reefs, and provides information services to coral reef professionals involved in management, research, monitoring, conservation and education. Our goal is to facilitate sustainable management of coral reefs and related coastal/marine environments, in order to benefit poor people in developing countries whose livelihoods depend on these natural resources.
SEAPOL
- The Southeast Asian Programme in Ocean Law, Policy and Management. SEAPOL is a non-governmental network of scholars, government officials, and private individuals with a professional interest primarily in ocean affairs of the Southeast Asian and APEC regions. Founded in 1981, SEAPOL has sponsored numerous international conferences and workshops, training programs, research projects, and publications of proceedings, monographs, papers and reports in all areas of ocean law, policy and management. SEAPOL.NET.
Security and Maritime Conflict in East Asia- Project Overview
- Energy and Security in the South China Sea project, University of Oslo
South China Sea Informal Working Group
- The South China Sea Informal Working Group at the University of British Columbia, Canada is a tremendous resource tracking the jurisdictional conflicts in the South China Sea. This website provides detailed information about meetings, seminars and workshops about the South China Sea organized by the Research and Development Agency in Indonesia, along with the Department of Foreign Affairs. It is also a valuable source of similar, relevant updates, publications, papers and online resources.
The South China Sea Informal Working Group
- This site documents a series of workshops held in Indonesia on “Managing Potential Conflicts in the South China Sea.” These non-governmental gatherings, attended by government and military officials in their private capacities as well as by academics from the region and Canada explore ways to engender cooperation among the nations bordering on the South China Sea, including environmental and resource management issues.
World Fish Centre
- The WorldFish Center is an international scientific research organization. Its mission is to reduce poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture. Most of our work is carried out in developing countries.
