On January 6th 2012, the kick-off meeting of ICA project (fullname: Impacts of Climate changes and adapting bio-security measures for northern Vietnam’s aquaculture) was officially held in the meeting room No.2, Education and Training building, Ria1. Participating the meeting, there were Dr Phan Thi Van, Vice Director of RIA1, Director of ICA project; Nguyen Huu Nghia, Research Coordinator and GIS and Fisheries resource specialist; Mai Van Tai, Socio-economics, Livelihood; ICA project staffs and PhD, MsC student. As technical advisors from Denmark, Professor Anders Dalsgaard and Dr. Henry Madsen also joined the kick-off meeting of ICA project.
In the meeting, members of ICA project and technical advisors together worked on the work-plan in 2012. According to that, in 2012, the project will start to collect aquaculture maps and take survey on the current use of probiotic and antimicrobial in aquaculture. Also, in May, the project website will be established.
Project entitled : “Impacts of climate changes and adapting bio-security measures for northern Vietnam’s aquaculture” was initially signed on December 6
th,2011 between the Embassy of Denmark and Research Institute for Aquaculture No.1. Being a non-refundable technical assistance of DKK 4.774.689 ( US $950.000 estimated) from Danida Fellowship Center (DFC), Denmark, the target of ICA project is to assess the impacts of climate change to aquaculture in northern Viet Nam and propose adapting measures for sustaining aquaculture development and improving biosecurity. The project will also propose and disseminate mitigation measures of climate change for major aquaculture system to authorities, farmers and other stakeholders. All the activities and outcomes of the project will be published on RIA1’s website:
https://www.ria1.org