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Reduced version of the Report of the ASFA Advisory Board Meeting. Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP), Mar del Plata, Argentina, 29 June to 2 July 2004

Year of publication 2005

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Author Pepe, R.; Wibley, H. (comps.)

Product type Document

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Synopsis (short abstract) Twenty five 25 Participants attended. Six new National Partners were admitted into the ASFA Partnership, bringing the total number to 51. The theme of th Meeting was the ¿structure¿ of the Board Meeting itself. The Board was satisfied with the structure/functioning of the Meeting, and praised the Secretary on the running of the Meeting. The Board Agreed to lengthen the Meeting by one day so as to allow for the holding of one day training workshops or thematic seminars. Eight ASFA Trust Fund proj ects were approved or approved in principle for a total of US$109,900. General acceptance was given by the ASFA Partners regarding: simplification of the ASFA input methods in order to increase the timeliness of ASFA, and cooperation with IAMSLIC as regards document delivery and as regards holding next years ASFA Board Meeting back-to-back with the IAMSLIC Meeting.

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Pepe, R.; Wibley, H. (comps.) Reduced version of the Report of the ASFA Advisory Board Meeting. Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP), Mar del Plata, Argentina, 29 June to 2 July 2004. Rome, FAO. 2005. [Online version.]

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