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Workshop on the harmonization of fisheries legislation of member States of the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission, Saly, Senegal, 17 and 18 August 1995

Year of publication 1995

Pages 10

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) A workshop on the harmonization of fisheries legislation of the member States of the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission was organized at Saly, Senegal, on 17 and 18 August 1995, within the framework of the guidelines approved by the 1st Seminar on the harmonization of fisheries legislation of these States, held in Dakar from 29 November to 2 December 1994. The workshop was organized by the project GCP /RAF /302/EEC “Improvement of the legal framework for fisheries cooperation, management and deve lopment of coastal States of West Africa”, in close collaboration with the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission. The workshop reviewed and/or suggested harmonized measures concerning the establishment of a sub-regional register of fishing vessels, the marking of fishing vessels, procedures for the self-reporting of position and catches and the rights and obligations of fisheries observers. The workshop furthermore reviewed questions concerning the status of the Sub-Regional Convention on the Exerci se of the Right to Hot Pursuit, signed in Conakry on 1 September 1993, the negotiation of fishing agreements with the European Union and the harmonization of fisheries resource conservation and management measures. This report is an abridged version of the report of the workshop published in French in full as Atelier sur l'harmonisation des législations des pêches des Etats membres de la Commission sous-régionale des pêches (Document N° 26).

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