The Philippine is the venue of the consultation of international donor agencies and institutions supporting and working on aquaculture and aquatic resources management in the Asia-Pacific region slated on Nov. 27-29. The Regional Donor Consultation Meeting will be held in two places - at the Hotel Intercontinental Manila in Makati City in the first two days and at the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC AQD) in Tigbauan, Iloilo on the last day. Opening program speakers are Agriculture Secretary Leonardo Q. Montemayor, SEAFDEC AQD chief Dr. Rolando R. Platon, Simon Funge Smith of the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, and FAO representative in the Philippines Sang Mu Lee.

As-Pac aquaculture consultation set Institution, donors to meet in Makati, Iloilo. (2002, November 27). Manila Bulletin, p. 16.