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ASFA Advisory Board Meeting, UNESCO/IOC Project Office for IODE, Ostend, Belgium, 11-15 June 2018

Summary Report

Year of publication 2019

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 79

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-131174-5

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) Advisory Board has been meeting annually since the beginning of the ASFA service/system in 1970. The functions of the ASFA Board are to decide upon, and oversee the implementation of policy matters with respond to the ASFA Service. Besides providing a forum for discussing the ongoing maintenance and the future development of the ASFA system, the Meeting also provides an opportunity for ASFA Partners to report on their accomplishments during the intersessional period. The 46th Annual Meeting of the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) Advisory Board was attended by 31 participants from: 25 National ASFA Partners, 2 UN ASFA Partners, 2 International ASFA Partners, and the ASFA Publishing Partner. The body of the Summary report represent the minutes of the Meeting as recorded by the Rapporteur and a number of annexes.

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FAO. 2019. ASFA Advisory Board Meeting, UNESCO/IOC Project Office for IODE, Ostend, Belgium, 11–15 June 2018. Summary Report. Rome. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

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