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GFCM - Report of the Ad Hoc Meeting of Experts on the External Evaluation of the Committee on Aquaculture and its Networks. Rome, Italy, 29–30 March 2004. / CGPM - Rapport de la Réunion ad hoc d’experts sur l’évaluation externe du Comité de l’aquaculture et de ses réseaux. Rome, Italie, 29-30 mars 2004.

Year of publication 2005

Pages 85

Author Fisheries and Aquaculture Management Division

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 9250052707

Series title FAO Fisheries Report

Series number 0429-9337 - R770

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Ad Hoc Meeting of Experts on the External Evaluation of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) Committee on Aquaculture (CAQ) and its Networks was held in Rome, Italy, from 29 to 30 March 2004. The meeting was attended by six experts from CAQ in their personal capacity and by the consultant recruited for undertaking the evaluation. Initially only an external evaluation of the SIPAM network (Information System for the Promotion of Aquaculture in the Mediterran ean) was recommended at the third session of the Committee and endorsed by the Commission at its twenty-seventh session. Subsequently, the call for a full external evaluation of CAQ, including all of its Networks, since its inception was requested by the Commission at its twenty-eight session in view of the forthcoming entry into force of the GFCM autonomous budget. On the basis of the report of the consultant, the Meeting of Experts reviewed and summarized major achievements of CAQ and its networks. It identified strengths and weaknesses of its modus operandi and provided recommendations towards addressing the limitations faced by the Committee over recent years. In support of a sustainable development of the Mediterranean aquaculture sector and in the context of the autonomous budget, the Meeting concurred that the size and composition of an expanded GFCM Secretariat would have the desirable influence on the functioning of the CAQ and its networks.

Statutory body / Meeting title General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM)

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FAO/General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean/Commission générale des pêches pour la Méditerranée. Report of the Ad Hoc Meeting of Experts on the External Evaluation of the Committee on Aquaculture and its Networks. Rome, 29–30 March 2004. Rapport de la Réunion ad hoc d’experts sur l’évaluation externe du Comité de l’aquaculture et de ses réseaux. Rome, 29-30 mars 2004. FAO Fisheries Report/FAO Rapport sur les pêches. No. 770. Rome, FAO. 2005. 77p.

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