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Strategy for the implementation of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries

This paper was presented at the SEAFDEC Regional Workshop on Responsible Fisheries, Bangkok, Thailand, 24-27 June 1997.

Year of publication 1997

Author Y. Kato ;Fisheries and Aquaculture Management Division

Product type Document

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Synopsis (short abstract) The Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (CCRF) was adopted by the Twenty-eighth Session of the FAO Conference in October 1995. The CCRF is of a voluntary nature and covers all fisheries including aquaculture and related activities. It seeks to ensure that aquatic resources are exploited and utilised responsibly and in accordance with long-term principles of sustainability. The Twenty-first Session of COFI, held in March 1997, reiterated the importance of the Code in the sustainable managem ent and development of fisheries. At its Twenty-first Session, in March 1995 the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) agreed that a progress report on implementation of the Code should be presented every two years which would include information on FAO activities and the proposed guidelines for implementation of the Code as well as the interregnal Programme of Assistance to Developing Countries and its application at national level.

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