Background:
UNDP/GEF is providing assistance through UNOPS to countries
borderin...
Background:
UNDP/GEF is providing assistance through UNOPS to countries
bordering Yellow Sea in support of their efforts to address among others the
increasing trends of depleting fishery stocks, loss of coastal wetland, land
and sea-based pollution and implementation of the Yellow Sea Large Marine
Ecosystem Strategic Action Programme (YSLME SAP) adopted by China and RO Korea
with support of DPR Korea. One of the assistance programs to implement the SAP
is the UNDP/GEF/UNOPS project entitled Implementing the Strategic Action Programme for the Yellow
Sea Large Marine Ecosystem: Restoring Ecosystem Goods and Services and
Consolidation of a Long-term Regional Environmental Governance Framework, or
the UNDP/GEF YSLME Phase II Project. One outcome of the project is “enhanced
and sustainable mariculture production by increasing productivity per unit area
as a means to ease pressure on capture fisheries.
In
China, while IMTA is successfully demonstrated in Sungo Bay, Shandong Province,
further replication to other mariculture operations are necessary. In this
project, several demonstration sites will be identified to replicate the IMTA
measured by the areas of replication, increase in productivity per unit area
and reduction of nitrogen and phosphorus from the production processes as
successfully demonstrated in Sungo Bay. For the replication of IMTA to broader coastal
areas in China to be successful, it is useful to conduct training programs and prepare
a training module both in Chinese and English for use in training of
practionners to be used by this project and other LME programs in Asia and
elsewhere. An agreement has been initially reached with Dongchu Island Fishery
Company, the partner that has been demonstrating IMTA in the past decades in
Sungo Bay with support of Chinese institutions. Along with the demonstration of
IMTA in other sites, a study on site selection in Liaoning, Shandong and
Jiangsu of the YSLME for further replication will be undertaken, together with
a cost-benefit analysis or valuation of mariculture ecosystem services under
the business-as-usual scenario and IMTA scenario. To facilitate the quality
management of IMTA, BAP will be developed based on the experiences of further
demonstration in several other sites in China and experiences in RO Korea.
National replication plan for IMTA will be prepared with support of YSLME Phase
II Project in collaboration with ocean and fishery authorities of China and RO
Korea. A regional IMTA guidelines will also be prepared on the basis of the
experiences of YSLME in collaboration with PEMSEA, SEADAC, NACA and IW:Learn
through organization and conduct of regional and international workshops on
IMTA and sustainable mariculture. Regional training in IMTA will also be
facilitated through partnership with IW:Learn focusing on Asia and Pacific
region.
As the training module serves as the basis for demonstration
and replication, ideally it is best completed in 2017 based on the experiences
of the Sungo Bay. An Mariculture Specialist will be hired to prepare the
training module in close consultation and collaboration with the Regional
Working Group on Sustainable Mariculture of the Project. It is expected that
coastal managers, farmers, academia and practionners in the areas of
mariculture will be primary users of the training modules.
Outputs:
The output of the assignment will be an IMTA training
module in both Chinese and English with a total of 100-150 pages, including
boxes, tables and graphs describing the process, essential skills to start and
operate IMTA coastal areas.