(Reproduced electronically in December 2008). The aim of the Seminar was to enable member economies to learn lessons and share experiences in the management of fishing capacity and to provide a means of capacity-building for those members who have the issue of excessive fishing capacity but have not yet designed such a program as envisaged in IPOA-Capacity.

• Introduction
• Summary Report
• Final Draft Agenda
• Opening Remark
• Capacity Reduction: Rationalizing Fisheries Management
• Managing Fishing Capacity - Some Insights from OECD and Canadian Experience
• Management of Fishing Capacity in Southeast Asia: Experience, Directions and Challenges
• Impacts of the New Zealand Quota Management - System on Fleet Capacity and Fishing Effort
• Chilean Experience in the Reduction of Excess Fishing Capacity
• Reduction on Fishing Capacity in Thailand
• Chinese Taipei’s Experience in Managing Fishing Capacity
• International Plan of Action Fishing Capacity