The revalidation/meeting was held at Eurotel, North EDSA, Quezon City last June 27-28, 2013. It was attended by Mr. Noel C. Barut, Interim Deputy Executive Director-NFRDI, Dr. Mudjekeewis D. Santos, Scientist 1, Mr. Francisco Torres Jr., Aquaculturist I, Dr. Antonio Samuel Mamauag, Fisheries Specialist of UP-MSI, Ms. Sarah Bales of NAFC, NSAP Project Leaders and RFRDC Managers from the different BFAR Regional Offices, and Secretariats from NFRDI.
The program was started by an invocation led by Mr. Graceous Von Yip, Research Assistant of NFRDI, followed by the singing of the National Anthem. Dr. Mudjekeewis D. Santos delivered the welcome and opening remarks. He tackled the importance of the Fisheries Vulnerability Assessment Tools (Fish VOOLS) for evaluating climate change vulnerabilities of the commodity in the country for a better fisheries resource management. He also discussed the overview of the Fish ACT revalidation/meeting agenda. After the message, Mr. Melchor R. Jacinto, Master of Ceremonies, made a roll-call of the participants per region. The revalidation/meeting proper ensued afterwards. The status of fisheries and climate change in the Philippines was discussed by Dr. Santos. He presented the perceived and predicted climate change impacts on Philippine fisheries and interlinked it on the Fish ACT project. Dr. Santos introduced Mr. Melchor Jacinto, Research Assistant of the Fish ACT project, as the next presenter. Mr. Jacinto recalled the objectives of the Fish ACT project and discussed the conceptual framework for the development of Fish VOOLS. He also made a run-through of the developed tools to the participants. On the second day of revalidation, Dr. Antonio Samuel Mamauag, Fisheries Specialist of UP-MSI, presented their developed tool for coastal ecosystems entitled,“Vulnerability Assessment Tool for Understanding Resilience of the Fisheries (VA-TURF) – Assessment of coastal fisheries ecosystems to climate change impacts.” Following his presentation, Mr. Richard Muallil, VA Specialist of UP-MSI, also presented the TURF scoring exercise. After the VA-TURF presentation of Dr. Mamauag and Mr. Muallil, Dr. Santos introduced Mr. Graceous Von Yip, Research Assistant of NSAP and Fish4US (Fisheries Forecasting Utility System), to discuss the importance and application of GIS in fisheries management and Fish ACT project. After the presentation of Fish VOOLS by Mr. Jacinto, Dr. Santos facilitated the revalidation on the afternoon of first day. The participants from each region, other NFRDI staffs, and Dr. Santos himself gave their recommendations.
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