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Report of the second session of the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission, Maputo, Mozambique, 22–25 August 2006/ Rapport de la deuxième session de la Commission des pêches pour le sud-ouest de l’océan Indien, Maputo, Mozambique, 22-25 août 2006

Year of publication 2007

Pages 61

Author FAO/SAFR;Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 9789250057019

Series title FAO Fisheries Report

Series number 0429-9337 - R823

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The second session of the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission was attended by delegates from Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, the Republic of Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Somalia, the United Republic of Tanzania and Yemen. Representatives of The World Conservation Union (IUCN), the Swedish Board of Fisheries, the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Project (SWIOFP), the Regional Seas Program of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Oceanographic Research Institut e (ORI), New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) also attended the session as observers. The Commission noted the work undertaken since the first session, considered the report of the Scientific Committee, agreed on a set of recommendations, approved the establishment of Working Group on Fisheries Data and Statistics, and agreed to link with the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Project (SWIOFP) through a Committee to be established within the Commission. The Commission will hold a regi onal conference on “Sustainable fisheries development and its contribution to the Millennium Development Goals” within two years; the key topics of the Conference were decided. The Commission agreed to renew its efforts to engage on-going national and regional monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) activities and assist with a regional directory of MCS personnel. It elected a Bureau composed of Seychelles, Madagascar and Mozambique to steer the Commission intersessionally and at the third se ssion which will take place in Seychelles in 2007.

Statutory body / Meeting title South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission (SWIOFC)

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FAO Subregional Office for Southern and East Africa/Bureau sous-régional pour l’Afrique australe et orientale. Report of the second session of the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission. Maputo, Mozambique, 22–25 August 2006.Rapport de la deuxième session de la Commission des pêches pour le sud-ouest de l’océan Indien. Maputo, Mozambique, 22-25 août 2006. FAO Fisheries Report/FAO Rapport sur les pêches. No. 823. Rome, FAO. 2007. 61p.

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