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CWP - Report of the twenty-third session of the Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics. Hobart, Australia, 22-26 February 2010

Year of publication 2010

Pages 87 p,

Author FAO;Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 9789251065846

Series title FAO Fisheries Report

Series number 0429-9337|0429-92337 - R942

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The report of the twenty-third session of the Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics (CWP) held in Hobart, Australia, from 22 to 26 February 2010, is presented. Topics discussed were: review of CWP membership; general reviews of progress since CWP-22, of intersessional CWP activities and those of the participating organizations; progress in recommendations of CWP-22; report on the establishment of Capture Group and Aquaculture Group; revision of standards, concepts, and codes (gear classifications, definition of bycatch, Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange [SDMX], global standards on automated data transmission, international codes for fishing effort, modification of area boundaries [57, 71 and sub-areas of 47], and trade certificate/Harmonized System [HS] modification); methodology and new data requirements (responses to questionnaire on data collection systems, standard methodologies for capture-based aquaculture data collection, electronic logbook syst ems, estimates of catches taken by illegal,unreported and unregulated [IUU] activities, and ecosystem data requirements); revision of CWP handbook; integrating the regional databases; the introduction of FISHSTAT J; and improvement in visibility of CWP.

Statutory body / Meeting title Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics (CWP)

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FAO. Report of the twenty-third session of the Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics. Hobart, Australia, 22–26 February 2010. FAO Fisheries Report. No. 942. Rome, FAO. 2010. 87p.

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