Marine Environmental Centres: East Asian Seas

This publication is a contribution to the UNEP sponsored regional Action Plan for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment and Coastal Areas of the East Asian Region adopted at the intergovernmental meetings convened by UNEP in Manila, 27-29 April 1981 and in Bangkok, 9-11 December 1981 3/. This Directory, compiled under the auspices of the UNEP financed project (FP/0501-82-02), is a product of the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS) coordinated by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). FAO circulated questionnaires to marine environment institutes in the five States participating in the East Asian Seas Action Plan (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand), collated the replies received and entered them into the Institutions Register of ASFIS, which had been modified to conform with Regional Seas needs.