Other experts will be consulted, and the project will conclude with the action plan presented in a final report. A core team of experts will be identified to provide information, advise on the prioritisation and design the final set of actions. The project will be led and coordinated by representatives from the three project partners (ASAP, SHOAL, Mandai Nature). The project will facilitate implementation of critical actions as soon as possible.
There will be no further research or field surveys conducted. The Action Plan for the urgent conservation of ASAP fish species will be developed through expert input alone. This Action Plan will form the basis of a new programme of work under the SHOAL–ASAP–Mandai Nature partnership. To produce an action plan that sets out clear, assigned, budgeted, practical steps for immediate and medium-term actions for ASAP fishes. Mandai Nature will strenghten WRS’s leadership in the conservation of Southeast Asian threatened species and build on the numerous prioritisation and planning processes undertaken for other species groups. Mandai Nature was recently established to further advance efforts in nature conservation and climate change mitigation in Asia by the parent entity of Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) and Temasek. The project will be housed in Mandai Nature, who has seconded one of its staff to the project and is hosting ASAP. An action plan is required (following the IUCN One Plan Approach integrating both in situ and ex situ conservation needs) firstly to ascertain and set priorities, secondly to identify the most efficient methods for securing these fish populations, and finally to identify appropriate implementation methods. Undertaking the required amount of action individually for each of the ASAP fish species would be likely to be inefficient, if even possible. Aquatic species in general are overlooked globally amongst conservation actions and many of these species need urgent attention. The threats to these fishes are varied and include impacts from agriculture (including land habitat loss and pollution), aquatic habitat loss, invasive species, overharvesting and water flow changes.įishes are also the most often neglected of the ASAP species with presently very little targeted conservation action underway. The fishes range from the some of the smallest in the world including liquorice gouramis (genus Parosphromenus), to some of the largest, such as the Mekong giant catfish ( Pangasianodon gigas). With over 80 Critically Endangered species, freshwater fishes are currently the largest group of ASAP species. In response, The IUCN SSC Asian Species Action Partnership (ASAP) was established to address the extinction risk facing the most threatened (listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species) land and freshwater vertebrates found in Southeast Asia. This decrease in palatability explains why carps have not become so popular among housewives.Southeast Asia is considered the region with the highest number of species facing immediate extinction. During the hot summer months, however, some carps may have a musty flavor and soft texture but their food value remains. It would serve as a low cost fish product and a good protein source.Ĭarps in the marker usually have a satisfactory flavor and a firm texture. This would help alleviate the present deficiency in animal protein supply.
With the launching of the fish production program of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, the objectives of which is to accelerate fish production, it is expected that carp would be produced more abundantly. Carps are now found in Lake Lanao, Lake Buhi, Laguna de Bay, Ambuklao and Caliraya Dams and Angat Reservoir. Years later, it was stocked in Laguna de Bay and Camarines Sur. Common carp, Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, a freshwater fish, was introduced in the Philippines as early as 1915.
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