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Book (series)Depleted marine resources: an approach to quantification based on the FAO capture database. 2004
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No results found.The 2002 United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development called for species whose catches had been drastically depleted to be restored to health within 2015. An approach is proposed here to a preliminary classification, based solely on information included in the FAO capture database. Three criteria were used to filter catch data: the trend in recent years, the long-term trend, and the extent of decline in catches over the long term. These were applied sequentially to the data series for species items by fishing area recorded in the FAO capture database. About ten percent of the species items examined matched the selecting criteria. This is the same proportion of stocks classified as “depleted” by FAO based on assessment data although there are differences in the species identified. Reasons for these discrepancies are discussed. The species groups with the highest percentages of species matching the three criteria were Gadiformes, molluscs (excluding cephalopods) and miscellan eous coastal and demersal fishes. Pelagic fishes (including Clupeoids) and crustaceans showed low percentages of depleted resources. Species considered depleted by this procedure are listed by FAO fishing area. -
No Thumbnail AvailableProjectStock Assessment and Fisheries management in the CECAF Region: A perspective view 1984
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On the occasion of the Fourth Session of the CECAF Sub-Committee for the Management of Fishery Resources Within the Limits of National Jurisdiction held in Dakar, Senegal from 8 to 11 June 1982, some concern was expressed regarding the actual effectiveness of this Subsidiary Body of the Committee. The problem arose directly from an observation that the updating of assessments - and thus the improvement of knowledge regarding the state of resources - was insufficient for the vast majority of the stocks being exploited in the region (Section 33 of the Report). At the Eighth Session of the Committee, Lomé, September 1982, the Chairman of the Management Sub-Committee emphasized this aspect of the Report. He requested that the Committee study this problem and consider the true role that this Sub-Committee should play in the present context of West Africa and the new Law of the Sea, especially in the light of the new responsibilities which the latter implied for coastal countries. As time was limited and other important problems had to be discussed, the Committee did not elaborate in detail and limited itself to recommending that the Sub-Committee should place on its Agenda the question of the effective regulation of fishing effort (including quotas and total allowable catches - TAC). In this way it indicated its desire to see the Sub-Committee play a more important role than in the past without, however, investigating the practical problems posed by the slow development of natio nal research structures. -
Book (series)Report of the Workshop on the Management of Shared Small Pelagic Fishery Resources in Northwest Africa. Banjul, Republic of the Gambia, 30 April - 3 May 2002 / Rapport de l'Atelier sur l'aménagement des ressources partagées de petits pélagiques en Afrique du Nord-Ouest. Banjul, République de Gambie, 30 avril - 3 mai 2002. 2002
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No results found.The objectives of the workshop were to examine the implications of national and joint management of shared stocks, to explore possible ways to achieve sustainable management of shared stocks for the benefit of coastal countries and to suggest the way forward for a regional management system. As a general recommendation the group suggests to support the current FAO Working Group on the Assessment of Small Pelagics in Northwest Africa. This group should be furthered and strengthened in order to maintain a high level of resource assessment studies in the coming years and the long-term future. Fisheries Scientific Institutes should identify research priorities and seek national budgetary allocationsto sustain long-term research. Countries should develop national management plans in support of a future joint regional management system.
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