| Point of contact |
3-1-1 Minato-cho, Hakodate
Hokkaido 041-8611 JAPAN
Faculty of Fisheries Sciences
Hokkaido University
TEL: +81-138-40-8852
FAX: +81-138-40-8854
E-Mail: afas@fish.hokudai.ac.jp
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| Message from Chairman |
Chairman: Kohji Iida
The Northeast and Southeast Pacific are the most productive fishing
area in the world. The marine capture fisheries in Asia including these two areas
estimated about 40 million tones which dominate about a half of the global
total catches. However present marine capture fisheries production in the world
already have reached at saturated amount, and the excessive fishing pressure
have impacted negatively on the natural fisheries resources and ocean environment.
Once underwater acoustic technologies have been developed for the effective
fishing tools, now it has contributed to estimate fish resource abundances as a
scientific survey tools. Now the missions given to scientists in fisheries
acoustics is to recommend appropriate fishery production based on the evaluation
of fish resources using underwater acoustic technologies for the sustainable
fisheries which does not impacts to natural resources and ocean environment.
Recently, the number of
researchers in Asia has been increased and the technologies on underwater acoustics
have been highly developed in Asian countries. However, so far, the exchanging
information and cooperative works on fisheries acoustics over the countries
still look like quite few. So we have established the Asian Fisheries Acoustics
Society (AFAS) based on past activities in order to promote further progress of
science and technologies on Fisheries Acoustics in Asian countries.
Since there are many particular problems in Asian fisheries
such like small quantities with numerous species, benthic animals, freshwater
fish, and aquaculture, the AFAS aims to apply the acoustical technologies for
those problems.
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| Directors and Advisers |
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(1)Chairman:
Kohji IIDA, Hokkaido University, Japan
(2)Board members:
Koki ABE: National Research Institute of Fisheries Engineering, Japan
Rajabidin HASSAN: MFRDMD, SEAFDEC, Malaysia
Doojin HWANG: Chonnam National University, Korea
Ming An LEE: National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
Hsueh-Jung LU: National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
Yoshinori MIYAMOTO: Tokyo University of Marine Sience and technology, Japan
Kazushi MIYASHITA: Hokkaido University, Japan
Tohru MUKAI: Hokkaido University, Japan
Yasushi NISHIMORI: Furuno Electric Co. Ltd., Japan
Kouichi Sawada: National Research Institute of Fisheries Engineering,
Japan
Yong TANG: Dalian Fisheries Uniersity, China
(3)Advisor:
Masahiko FURUSAWA, Tokyo University of Marine Science
and Technology, Japan.
Akira HAMANO: National Fisheries University, Japan
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