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Australia, France, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America, Western Samoa

Project findings and recommendations

Year of publication 1975

Pages 31

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) An increasing awareness of the need for coordinating fisheries interests, activities and development in the South Pacific led to a request to the United Nations Development Programme by interested governments for assistance in the establishment of a South Pacific Fisheries Development Agency. In response to this request, a UNDP project (RAS/69/102) covering Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia was established and, after an initial period starting July 1969 during which the Project Manager-designa te assisted in drafting the Plan of Operation, became operative from July 1970 until October 1973.

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