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Summary Report - FAO Working Group on the Assessment of Small Pelagic Fish off Northwest Africa 2019

Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 13 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This summary provides the preliminary results, not yet validated by the Scientific Sub-Committee (SSC) of the Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF), of the nineteenth meeting of the FAO Working Group on the Assessment of Small Pelagic Fish off Northwest Africa held in Casablanca, Morocco, 8-13 July 2019. The overall objective of the Working Group is to assess the state of the small pelagic resources in Northwest Africa and make recommendations on fisheries management and exploitation options aimed at ensuring optimal and sustainable use of small pelagic fish resources for the benefit of coastal countries. The first day was dedicated to planning the 2019 R/V Dr Fridtjof Nansen survey in the region and to review progress of research work under the EAF-Nansen Programme Science plan, that uses the data collected in these surveys to address research questions of importance to the Working Group.

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