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COFI - Report of the Eighteenth Session of the Committee on Fisheries. Rome, 10-14 April 1989.

Year of publication 1989

Pages 48

Author Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division

Product type Book (series)

Category Technical report

ISBN 9251028532

Series title FAO Fisheries Report

Series number 0429-9337 - R416

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Committee on Fisheries at its Eighteenth Session reviewed the trends and prospects for capture fisheries and aquaculture for the next 25 years and approved the main areas for emphasis and priority attention of the future FAO fishery programmes.It endorsed the policy of concentration by FAO on those issues in world fisheries in which it has a comparative advantage and special mandate. The Committee discussed the functions and achievements of the FAO regional fishery bodies and their role in TCDC and ECDC and expressed unanimous support for the work of these bodies. It concluded that the lack of financial resources was a serious problem for almost all FAO regional fishery bodies and urged donors to give support. The Committee also reviewed the progress in implementing the World Fisheries Conference's Programmes of Action;it agreed that they should continue to provide an international framework and guidelinesfor fisheries management and development and endorsed their extension be yond the period 1985-89. The Committee considered the Report of the Second Session of the COFI SubCommittee on Fish Trade held in October 1988.It gave general support to the recommendations of the SubCommittee.It was agreed that the Technical Assistance Programme for Fishery Commodities and Marketing Development was necessary and appropriate.The Committee also considered a standardized system for the marking and identification of fishing vessels, expressed its support,in principle,to the e ndorsement ofthe specifications for suchasystem to be appropriately amended and recommended that the standardsbe adopted ori a voluntary basis. The Committee was informed of the results of the Conference for the Adoption of a Draft Agreement for the Establishment of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission.The Committee noted and supported the main programme priorities selected by the Director General in preparing his Summary Programme of Work and Budget 1990-91.It agreed that the fisheries program me as proposed was balanced, responsive to the needs of member countries and constituted an acceptable basis for the formulation of the full Programme of Work and Budget in fisheries for 1990-91.

Statutory body / Meeting title COFI Sub-Committee on Aquaculture

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FAO.Report of the eighteenth session of the Committee on Fisheries,Rome, 10-14 April 1989.FAO Fisheries Report.No. 416.Rome, FAO.1989.48p.

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