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The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department's efforts in implementing the recommendations of the past session/s of the COFI Sub-Committee on Aquaculture

Sub-Committee on Aquaculture, Sixth Session, Cape Town, South Africa, 26-30 March 2012

Year of publication 2011

Pages 9p.

Author Fisheries and Aquaculture Management Division

Product type Meeting

Category Meeting document

Edition 1

Meeting symbol COFI:AQ/VI/2021/2

Meeting Session Number COFI:AQ/VI/2012/2

Language English

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