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CWP - Report of the twentieth session of the Coordinating Working Party on Fisheries Statistics. Victoria, Seychelles, 21-21 January 2003.

Year of publication 2003

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 73

Author FAO

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 9251049920

Series title FAO Fisheries Report

Series number 0429-9337 - R709

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The report of the twentieth session of the Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics (CWP), Victoria, Seychelles, 21–24 January 2003, is presented. Topics discussed were: changes in membership of CWP; review of recommendations from CWP–19; reports of intersessional meetings; reports on intersessional developments in Agency programmes in fishery statistics; elasmobranch and bycatch statistics; national data collection methodologies and data quality; proposals for an advocacy role for CWP; catch and aquaculture terminology; vessel identifiers; proposed FAO strategy on improving information on status and trends of capture fisheries; a report on the Second FIGIS–FIRMS Ad Hoc Meeting, 20 January 2003, Victoria, Seychelles; STATLANT issues (statistical areas; International Standard Statistical Classification of Fishing Vessels (ISSCFV); socio-economic indicators; environmental sustainability indicators; fishery statistics for Southeast Asia); and the CWP Handbook of Fishery Statisti cal Standards.

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

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FAO. Report of the twentieth session of the Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics. Victoria, Seychelles, 21-24 January 2003. FAO Fisheries Report. No. 709. Rome, FAO. 2003. 65p.

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