Stock Assessment and Fisheries management in the CECAF Region: A perspective view

F. Poinsard; S. García;Office of Assistant Director-General

Stock Assessment and Fisheries management in the CECAF Region: A perspective view

Year of publication 1984

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Author F. Poinsard; S. García;Office of Assistant Director-General

Product type Project

Series title CECAF/ECAF Series

Series number 1014-9228

Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) On the occasion of the Fourth Session of the CECAF Sub-Committee for the Management of Fishery Resources Within the Limits of National Jurisdiction held in Dakar, Senegal from 8 to 11 June 1982, some concern was expressed regarding the actual effectiveness of this Subsidiary Body of the Committee. The problem arose directly from an observation that the updating of assessments - and thus the improvement of knowledge regarding the state of resources - was insufficient for the vast majority of the stocks being exploited in the region (Section 33 of the Report). At the Eighth Session of the Committee, Lomé, September 1982, the Chairman of the Management Sub-Committee emphasized this aspect of the Report. He requested that the Committee study this problem and consider the true role that this Sub-Committee should play in the present context of West Africa and the new Law of the Sea, especially in the light of the new responsibilities which the latter implied for coastal countries. As time was limited and other important problems had to be discussed, the Committee did not elaborate in detail and limited itself to recommending that the Sub-Committee should place on its Agenda the question of the effective regulation of fishing effort (including quotas and total allowable catches - TAC). In this way it indicated its desire to see the Sub-Committee play a more important role than in the past without, however, investigating the practical problems posed by the slow development of natio nal research structures.

Statutory body / Meeting title Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF)

Language English

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Report of the Special Working Group on Cephalopod stocks in the Northern Region of CECAF 1982

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In accordance with the recommendation of the Seventh Session of the Fisheries Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF) an ad hoc Working Group met under the sponsorship of the Inter-regional Fisheries Development and Management Programme INT/79/019 CE1 to examine the state of cephalopod stocks of the Northern Region of CECAF. The meeting was held from 27 to 30 January 1982 at Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, at the oceanography laboratory of the Spanish Oceanography Ins titute. The Working Group consisted of researchers from Spain, Morocco, Senegal, the Inter-regional Fisheries Development and Management Programme (INT/79/019 CE), FAO Headquarters in Rome, and one observer from Guinea (see Appendix 1). Mr Pereiro welcomed the participants and was then appointed Chairman of the Working Group. The Provisional Agenda was completed and adopted (Appendix 2). Messrs Fonteneau, Roest and Garcia were appointed as Rapporteurs.
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Report of the Workshop to plan the 1999 R/V DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN surveys in the northern CECAF area and the standardization of acoustic surveys in the region. Casablanca, Morocco, 18-22 October 1999. / Rapport de l'Atelier pour la planification des prospections du N/R DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN dans la zone nord du COPACE en 1999 et la standardisation des campagnes acoustiques de la région. Casablanca, Maroc, 18-22 octobre 1999. 2001

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A Workshop to plan the 1999 R/V DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN surveys in the northern CECAF area and the standardization of acoustic surveys in the region was held in Casablanca, Morocco from 18 to 22 October 1999. This Workshop was a follow-up to the Workshop "A review of the surveys off Northwest Africa in the 1990s" held in Bergen in 1998 (FAO, 1998). The countries represented were the Gambia, Mauritania, Morocco and Senegal as well as Norway, Russia and FAO. The purpose of the Workshop was to plan the 1999 acoustic survey with the R/V DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN off Northwest Africa in November-December 1999 and to discuss the standardization of acoustic surveys in the Northern CECAF area as well as following-up on other recommendations from the meeting in Bergen in 1998. The Workshop stressed the usefulness of the results from the DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN surveys and strongly recommended that the surveys be continued. The Workshop considered that the use of the results for stock assessment could st ill be increased at a regional level and therefore recommended to establish a Working Group on assessment of small pelagic resources in the same region as covered by the DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN surveys. The Working Group on Guidelines provided a first draft of the Guidelines for acoustic surveys in Northwest Africa. It was recommended that the Working Group should meet again before the next acoustic survey in the year 2000.
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CECAF - Report of the sixteenth session of the Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, 22-24 October 2002. / COPACE - Rapport de la seizième session du Comité des pêches pour l’Atlantique Centre-Est. Santa Cruz de Ténérife, Espagne, 22-24 octobre 2002. 2002

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This document is the final report of the sixteenth session of the Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF), held in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, from 22 to 24 October 2002. The major topics discussed were: action on recommendations of the fifteenth session; poverty alleviation in fishing communities through the sustainable fisheries livelihoods approach; recommendations of the CECAF Scientific Sub- Committee; strengthening monitoring, control and surveillance in the region; review of CECAF terms of reference; and upgrading the Committee to a Commission level. The summary of the main decisions and recommendations is given in Appendix E.

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