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Report of the FAO/CECAF Working Group on the Assessment of Small Pelagic Fish, Subgroup South Accra, Ghana, 19-28 October 2009/ Rapport du Groupe de travail FAO/COPACE sur l’évaluation des petits poissons pélagiques, Sous-groupe Sud Accra, Ghana, 19-28 octobre 2009

Year of publication 2013

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 172 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Synopsis (short abstract) The second meeting of the FAO/CECAF Working Group on the Assessment of Small Pelagic Fish – Subgroup South met in Accra, Ghana, from 19 to 28 October 2009. The overall objective of the Working Group is to contribute to the improved management of small pelagic resources in West Africa through the assessment of the state of the stocks and fisheries to ensure sustainable use of these resources for the benefit of coastal countries. The Working Group focused on data quality and on the analysis of tre nds in the basic data (catch, effort, abundance indices and length distribution) and trends in the fishery independent survey data. The species assessed by the Working Group were: sardinella (Sardinella aurita and Sardinella maderensis), bonga (Ethmalosa fimbriata), anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) and horse mackerel (Trachurus trecae and Decapterus rhonchus) and other Carangidae, in the region between the northern border of Guinea-Bissau and the southern border of Angola.

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

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FAO Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic/Comité des pêches pour l’Atlantique Centre-Est. 2013. Report of the FAO/CECAF Working Group on the Assessment of Small Pelagic Fish – Subgroup South. Accra, Ghana, 19–28 October 2009. Rapport du Groupe de travail FAO/COPACE sur l’évaluation des petits poissons pélagiques – Sousgroupe Sud. Accra, Ghana, 19-28 octobre 2009. CECAF/ECAF Series/COPACE/PACE Séries. No. 12/74 Rome, FAO. 172 pp.

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