Report of the Eighth Meeting of the RECOFI Working Group on Fisheries Management

Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division

Report of the Eighth Meeting of the RECOFI Working Group on Fisheries Management

Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt, 8-10 December 2014

Year of publication 2015

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 63 p.

Author Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division

Publisher Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa ;

Product type Book (series)

Category Technical report

ISBN 978-92-5-108743-5

Series title FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report

Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) This document contains the report of the Eighth Meeting of the Regional Commission for Fisheries (RECOFI) Working Group on Fisheries Management (WGFM), which was held in Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt, 8 to 10 December 2014. The WGFM addressed and made decisions on matters concerning relevant follow-up to seventh meeting of the RECOFI WGFM and to the Seventh Session of RECOFI that was held in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran during the period from 14 to 16 May 2013. A proposal for regional coor dination of shrimp trawl fisheries in RECOFI was presented. The results of the socio-economic survey were presented and discussed. The follow-up for the regional joint assessment of the narrow-barred Spanish mackerel was agreed. The follow-up of the recommendation on minimum data reporting was reviewed. The need for a regional database for marine fisheries data in the RECOFI area was raised and ideas discussed. The possible cooperation of RECOFI in CITES was discussed and the state of IPOA-IUU a nd Port State Measures Agreement in the RECOFI area was discussed. A workplan for the 2015-2016 biennium was proposed.

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