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CWP - Report of the nineteenth session of the Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics. Nouméa, New Caledonia, 10-13 July 2001.

Year of publication 2001

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 91

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 9251046689

Series title FAO Fisheries Report

Series number 0429-9337 - R656

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Nineteenth Session of the Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics (CWP), was held in Nouméa, New Caledonia, from 10 to 13 July 2001. Topics discussed were: changes in membership of CWP; review of recommendations from CWP-18; reports of intersessional meetings; Meeting of Agencies Participating in FIGIS/FIRMs (9 July 2001); reports on intersessional developments in Agency programmes in fishery statistics; STATLANT issues; elasmobranch statistics; data implications of Illeg al, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing and Agency catch certification schemes; discard data availability and dissemination; integration of fishery statistics and joint dissemination; charging and dissemination policies for supply of data; record of vessels fishing on the high sea (Compliance Agreement); statistical classifications, i.e. fishing-related activities (e.g. ISIC), vessels (e.g. ISSCFV), species (e.g. ISSCAAP and ASFIS); coordination of descriptions of national statistical methodologies; role of the CWP in relation to statistical development; and the Handbook of Fishery Statistics.

Statutory body / Meeting title Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics (CWP)

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FAO. Report of the nineteenth session of the Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics. Nouméa, New Caledonia, 10-13 July 2001. FAO Fisheries Report. No. 656. Rome, FAO. 2001. 91p.

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