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Report of the Near East and North Africa regional consultative meeting on securing sustainable small-scale fisheries

Bringing together responsible fishing and social development

Year of publication 2012

Pages 69 p.

Author Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 9789250072227

Series title FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report

Series number 2070-6987|ISSN 2070-6987|20706987 - R1005

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) As a key strategy for developing the international guidelines for small-scale fisheries (SSF Guidelines) that the twenty-ninth session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) in 2011 recommended, the FAO Secretariat has engaged in an extensive consultative process with governments, regional organizations, civil society organizations, and small-scale fishers, fish workers and their communities. A consultative workshop for the countries in the Near East and North Africa region was conve ned in Muscat, Oman, from 26 to 28 March 2012. The workshop confirmed the importance of small-scale fisheries in the region as a contributor to poverty alleviation, food and nutrition security, and economic development, and that the SSF Guidelines will be an important tool for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries governance and development. In this context, it was recognized that small-scale fisheries in the region are characterized by great diversity between subregions and countri es with regard to, for example, the type and numbers of actors involved, the production and market structures and the resources and means of the sector. Moreover, many countries are currently going through a period of transition which may have implications also for the small-scale fisheries sector.

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FAO. Report of the Near East and North Africa Regional Consultative Meeting on Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries: Bringing Together Responsible Fishing and Social Development, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, 26–28 March 2012.FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report. No. 1005. Rome, FAO. 2012. 69 pp.

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