WECAFC - Report of the second session of the Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (WECAFC). Panama, Panama, 22-26 May 1978.

Western Central Atlantic Fisher Commission ;Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division

WECAFC - Report of the second session of the Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (WECAFC). Panama, Panama, 22-26 May 1978.

Year of publication 1978

Pages 53

Author Western Central Atlantic Fisher Commission ;Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 9251006652

Series title FAO Fisheries Report

Series number 0429-9337 - R209

Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) The present phase of the UNDP/FAO WECAF Project was initiated on 1 January 1977. It was preceded by a preparatory phase of 16 months which ended on 30 June 1976, during which time a number of studies basic to the programming of development activities in the region were carried out, notably "An Assessment of Crustacean Resources of the Western Central Atlantic and the Northern Southwest Atlantic", "A Review of the Fishery Resources in the Western Central Atlantic", "An Assessment of the Fish St ocks and Fisheries of the Campeche Bank", and "Fishery Training Needs in the Western Central Atlantic". These studies are available for the information of participants at this meeting. As you will recall, the UNDP became faced with rather serious financial difficulties in the first half of 1976, giving rise to a significant curtailment of UNDP funded activities. As a result, the implementation of the programme envisaged for Western Central Atlantic fisheries had to be postponed - the fir st phase of the Project ended on 30 June 1976 and the one now in course began only six months later.Because of the uncertainty prevailing in the first half of 1976 as to when the WECAF a-oject would become operational and, indeed, what funds would be available for the implementation of planned activities, many of the organizational requisites were left in abeyance, especially the selection of a Project Headquarters in the area and the recruitment of staff. In consequence, although the Project was declared operational when the Programme Leader was appointed on 1 January 19779 the stage was not yet set for the immediate initiation of field activities. These observations are made to give members of this Committee some of the background which in large measure served to retard the implementation of the programme of work now in progress. The descriptive account which follows is therefore given in two parts: one, dealing with activities prior to the establishment of the Project He adquarters in the WECAF area, what can be considered the organizational stage; the other, concerning activities initiated since the Project moved to the area on 1 September 1977.

Statutory body / Meeting title Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (WECAFC)

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Report of the second session of the Fishery organizatons. WECAF Conferences Report Stock assessment. Fishery Statistic *isnery statistics. J_Per:1- Jeveloprent. Sea lar, Pollution effects. Artisanal fishinc. FAO Pishing Area 31.

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