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Book (series)COFI - Report of the Eighteenth Session of the Committee on Fisheries. Rome, 10-14 April 1989. 1989The 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.
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Book (series)Sixth Meeting of the Working Group on Fisheries Management (Doha, Qatar, 5-8 November 2012) 2012
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No results found.This document contains the report of the Sixth Meeting of the Regional Commission for Fisheries (RECOFI) Working Group on Fisheries Management (WGFM), which was held in Doha, the State of Qatar from 5 to 8 November 2012. The WGFM addressed and made decisions on matters concerning relevant follow-up to fifth meeting of the RECOFI WGFM and to the Sixth Session of RECOFI that was held in Rome, Italy during the period from 10 to 12 May 2011. The status of the implementation of the fisheries manageme nt recommendation on minimum data reporting in recommendation RECOFI/6/2011/1 that entered into force on 1 January 2012 was discussed. The report on the RECOFI Workshop on Social and Economic Aspects of Fisheries in the RECOFI Region as well as the progress on the work of the Task Group for this activity was presented and discussed. The development of regional fisheries management plans with agreed operational objectives for fisheries management was outlined. The main outcomes of the Near East a nd North Africa Regional Consultative Meeting on Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries and its relevance to RECOFI were presented. RECOFI participation in the FIRMS Steering Committee meeting and national inventories of fisheries in RECOFI Members were considered. The status of RECOFI’s financial situation and its implications for implementing the approved Working Group on Fisheries Management workplan was discussed, as well as the priorities, and further to this, an update of the programme of work and budget for the biennium 2013–2014 was agreed. Finally, an update on the outcomes of the tripartite initiative on fisheries management cooperation in the northern area of RECOFI was presented. The next meeting of the WGFM will possibly be held in Kuwait in 2013. -
MeetingResults and Priorities for FAO Activities in the Region 2018FAO's Strategic Framework, reviewed in 2016-17, provides direction for FAO's technical work and its Strategic Programmes (SPs) to effectively address the priorities in the region and ensure effective delivery of results at country level. The Reviewed Strategic Framework of FAO and its Medium Term Plan 2018-21 and Programme of Work and Budget 2018-19 were approved by the FAO Conference at its 40th Session in July 2017. The Conference appreciated the close alignment of FAO’s Strategic Objectives (SOs) with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As supported by the Regional Conference at its 33rd Session, during 2016-17 FAO in the Asia and the Pacific region focused its work on four regional initiatives (RIs): the Regional Initiative on the Zero Hunger Challenge; the Regional Rice Initiative; the Regional Initiative on Blue Growth; and the Regional Initiative on Developing Local Value Chains for Food Security and Nutrition in the Pacific Island Countries. Other programmes and priority areas of work included Food Safety and “One Health”; Making Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries More Productive and Sustainable in the Context of Change Climate; SDGs, Monitoring and Agricultural Statistics; Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment; and Migration.
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