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Report of the twenty-seventh Session of the European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission. Hameenlinna, Finland, 24 - 26 October 2012

Year of publication 2013

Pages 39

Author FAO;Fisheries and Aquaculture Management Division

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 9789251074206

Series title FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report

Series number 2070-6987 - R1028

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The twenty-seventh Session of the European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission (EIFAAC) was held in Hämeenlinna, Finland, from 24 to 26 October 2012. The Session reviewed EIFAAC’s intersessional achievements since the last Session in 2010 which included inter alia the approval by the FAO Council of the change of name from EIFAC to EIFAAC to include aquaculture and of the revised Statutes of EIFAAC, finalization and adoption of the amended EIFAAC Rules of Procedure, and the progress made on technical and scientific issues through the EIFAAC projects. The EIFAAC Strategy Plan for 2012–2016 was adopted. The twenty-eighth Session will be held in 2014.

Statutory body / Meeting title European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission (EIFAAC)

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FAO. 2013. Report of the twenty-seventh Session of the European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission. Hämeenlinna, Finland, 24–26 October 2012. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report No. 1028. Rome. 39 pp.

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