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Report of the Third Meeting of Regional Fishery Body Secretariats Network. Rome, 7-8 February 2011.

Year of publication 2011

Pages 61

Author FAO;Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 9789251069868

Series title FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report

Series number 2070-6987 - R980

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Third Meeting of Regional Fishery Body Secretariats Network (RSN-3) was held in Rome, Italy, from 7 to 8 February 2011. It addressed many pressing issues relating to global and regional fisheries governance, including illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, overcapacity, the ecosystem approach to fisheries management, small-scale and inland fisheries and the outcomes of the twenty-ninth Session of FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) held in Rome during the previous week. Twenty-eigh t Regional Fishery Body (RFB) Secretariats were represented at the meeting with varying responsibilities over inland, coastal and marine fisheries and aquaculture, as well as four intergovernmental organizations. The meeting reached a number of conclusions regarding matters that merit the attention of RFBs, governments and FAO. The RSN also issued a Statement responding to unsubstantiated information that had been published about RFBs and elaborating the challenges and achievements of RFBs.

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FAO.Report of the Third Meeting of Regional Fishery Body Secretariats Network.Rome, 7-8 February 2011.FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report. No. 980. Rome, FAO. 2011. 61 pp.

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