4 - Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture

Making Levels) and Horizontally (Between Farms, Associations or UnlOnS,
and Between Government Departments) to Ensure that the Policies and
Plans Developed at Each Level of the Planning Hierarchy Harmonize with
each other.
4. Necessary conditions to tormulat. eCtQctive aquaculturn policies
m assess and quantify impacts and implications of aquaculture pollcy changes
and management interventions on production, supply, demands, revenues,
expenditures and related resources;
monitor and understand the response mechanisms of farmers and markets
to changing socio-economic conditions; and
m determine the most appropriate and realistic objectlves for each sector, and
establish the optimum framework required to achieve plannlng or policy
objectives (priorities and nature of interventions).
- All these activities require substantial amount of physical, natural, biological
and socioeconomic data from wide range of sources(local to global
organizations)
Better understanding of information requirement and opportunity mapping
for cooperation among different aquaculture information management
agencies
Sharing of data and information with national and international collaborative
agencies/institutions.
5. Information issues
A Variety of information are available
Relevance for policy design differ
High -speed -capacity processing and analytical system to process massive
data
Transmission network
Remote sensing ,GIs
Data Quality Control
Decision making support system available to a wider stakeholders
6. Does growth in AIB meet needs of policy making
Scientific input is often undermined
Weak link between aquaculture development and information monitoring
Harmonized methodology for data collection be developed;
Statistical and non statistical information with analytical explanations should
be considered in order to provide relevant time-series and reliable
information for efficient aquaculture management and planning; and
The scope of the data collected should be considered in view of the changing
data needs for outputs, as well as planning processes