Research orientation of CAF to the year 2010

CAF has planned 9 themes for its research orientation to the year of 2010 based on the needs of aquaculture and fisheries development of the Mekong river delta, availability of its human resource capacity and facilities.

Theme 1:      Application of bio-technology in health management of farmed aquatic organisms (e.g. catfishes, shrimp, prawn,…).

Theme 2:      Development of seed production technologies for indigenous species (catfishes, ell, spotted cat, mugil, mudskippers,…).

Theme 3:      Basic studies (aquatic organism physiology and biology; aquatic toxicology,…).

Theme 4:     Nutritional requirements and feed development/improvement for indigenous fish species (e.g. catfishes; climbing perch, snakeheads,…).

Theme 5:     Improvement of productivity, economic efficiency, sustainability and products safety of aquaculture systems (e.g. catfish, prawn and shrimp production)

Theme 6:     Aquatic environment monitoring/evaluation, water quality management of aquaculture ponds and environmental indicators.

Theme 7:     Fisheries resource assessment and management (fisheries population of open waters and development of fisheries database,…)

Theme 8:     Socio-economics of aquaculture production and capture fisheries (bio-economic models of aquaculture production systems, socio-economic analysis of aquaculture systems and capture fisheries)

Theme 9:     Integrated coastal zone management (interaction between shrimp production and coastal resource management, interaction between catfish production & open water environment).