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Report of the Expert Consultation on Cleaner Fishery Harbours and Fish Quality Assurance - BOBP/REP/84

Chennai, India; 25-28 October, 1999

Year of publication 2000

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages p. 86

Product type Book (series)

Series number REP84

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This document is the report of an expert consultation on Cleaner Fishery Harbours and Fish Quality Assurance held in Chennai, India, from October 25 to 28, 1999. It was attended by some 30 participants, most of whom were representatives from member-countries fishery harbour managers and administrators, professionals in fish quality control, fish export, harbour design and construction Resource persons were drawn from the FAO and the Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP). The consultation’s develop ment objective was to ensure the quality of seafood through rehabilitation of existing fishery harbours and appropriate designs for new fishing harbours. The immediate objectives were to build awareness among key stakeholders about techniques to develop and maintain cleaner fishery harbours, expose them to state-of-the-art design principles and technologies,and facilitate the sharing ofexperience, expertise and learning among membercountries. This report contains the text of the “Chenn ai Declaration” passed by the Consultation, which grew out ofdiscussions among member-delegates. It also contains the text of papers presented by the resource persons. The consultation was part ofaseries ofpilot activities implemented by the BOBPin co-operation with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in India, Thailand, Maldives and Sri Lanka.

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