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The World Aquaculture Society (WAS) had their annual meeting in
BEXCO, Busan City, Republic of Korea, 20-23 May 2008, attended
by more than a thousand people from 95 countries around the
world. During the meeting, YSLME project organised a special
session on the Friday morning, chaired by Dr. Mark Walton and
Dr. In Kwon Jang, titled “Reducing the environmental impacts of
mariculture in the Yellow Sea”. [Detail],
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[Partner News-NOWPAP]
Three NOWPAP Regional Activity Centres (DINRAC, MERRAC and POMRAC) held their Focal Points Meetings (CEARAC Meeting has been held in March 2008).
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- Training course on “Capacity Building & Expert Exchange Programme 2008 for Analysis of Organics” was supported by the UNDP/GEF Yellow Sea Project Management Office and held at the International Atomic Energy Agency, Marine Environmental Laboratories(IAEA-MEL) in Monaco from 2nd to 6th June 2008.
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- The “Regional Workshop on
Assessing Marine Environment Quality
of the Yellow Sea” was co-organised
by the UNDP/GEF Yellow Sea Project
and National Marine Environment
Monitoring Center (NMEMC, China)
from the 2nd to 4th June 2008, in
Shenyang, China. [Detail]
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[Partner News
- PEMSEA] The United
Nations Office for Project Services
(UNOPS) and the East Asian Seas (EAS)
Partnership Council have named
Professor Raphael P. M. Lotilla as
the new Regional Programme Director
of the PEMSEA Regional Programme and
the Executive Director of the PEMSEA
Resource Facility beginning May
2008. [Detail]
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[Partner News
- PEMSEA] The East Asian
Seas Partnership Council Meeting
will hold its second meeting on
14–17 July 2008 in Tokyo, Japan. The
Meeting is being organized by the
PEMSEA Resource Facility and is
co-organized by the Ministry of
Land, Infrastructure, Transport and
Tourism (MLIT) with the support of
the Ocean Policy Research Foundation
(OPRF) of Japan. [Detail]
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[Partner News
- PEMSEA] The Government
of the Philippines through the
Department of Environment and
Natural Resources (DENR) announced
today, 5 June 2008, its hosting of
the East Asian Seas (EAS) Congress
2009, to be held in Manila on 23-27
November 2009 at the Philippine
International Convention Center. [Detail]
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- The “UNDP/GEF Yellow Sea
Project”
Associate
Expert Programme for 2008
(previously called the Internship
Programme)
is now open for applications from
(but not limited to) the coastal
countries of the Yellow Sea. [Detail]
(New
deadline)
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- The Division for Ocean Affairs
and the Law of the Sea(DOALOS) of
the Office of Legal Affairs, is now
accepting applications for the
2009-2010 session of the United
Nations - The Nippon Foundation of
Japan Fellowship Programme. Deadline
: 15th August. [Detail]
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- World Aquaculture Society meeting in Busan, R. of Korea 20 - 23 May 2008. The YSLME project is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a special session titled “ Reducing the environmental impacts of mariculture” 9.00 -12.50 on Friday 23rd May. Information on participants, venue, logistics and abstracts are available here.
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- Report of training workshop for
DPRK scientists on “Capacity
Building for Environmental Pollution
Monitoring and Assessment” is
available here.
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“The activities on Data and Information Collection and Regional Data Syntheses were completed, and the reports published. If you would like a copy of these books, please send your request to the Project Management Office at
info@yslme.org ”
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