Report of the Third Session of the Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research, Rome, 5-8 December 2000
Report of the Third Session of the Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research, Rome, 5-8 December 2000

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research. Session

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 74

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The FAO Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research (ACFR) held its Third Session in Rome, from 5 to 8 December 2000. The Committee examined its work since the First Session, undertook an appraisal of FAO's fisheries research-related programmes and elaborated the Committee's work for the intersessional period (2000-2002). The Committee emphasized the importance of establishing an international Plan of Action for Status and Trends Reporting in Fisheries as a means of enhancing its capacity to advise the Director-General and the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) with regard to the most up-to-date and accurate view of the prospects for maintaining or enhancing fish production.

Papers Presented at the Second Session of the Working Party on Small-Scale Fisheries
Papers Presented at the Second Session of the Working Party on Small-Scale Fisheries

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Working Party on Small-Scale Fisheries

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9789251052563

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The session agreed on a vision statement and on a characterization of small-scale fisheries as well as on a research agenda of five main themes. It elaborated preliminary drafts of two separate technical documents on the contribution, role and importance of small-scale fisheries and research agenda for small-scale fisheries and requested that the documents be submitted, after finalization by the Secretariat, to the ACFR at its next session

Report of the Fourth Session of the Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research, Rome, 10-13 December 2002
Report of the Fourth Session of the Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research, Rome, 10-13 December 2002

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research. Session

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9789251048917

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The Committee's report welcomes the attention given by the World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 to fisheries issues and provides guidance on the responsible fisheries management goals. It recommends the establishment of a working party on small-scale marine fisheries to develop a draft research agenda and evaluate its role and significance, and identifies human capacity building as a key cross-cutting issue.

Report of the Sustainable Fisheries Livelihoods Programme (GCP/INT/735/UK) and FAO Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research Joint Working Party on Poverty in Small-Scale Fisheries
Report of the Sustainable Fisheries Livelihoods Programme (GCP/INT/735/UK) and FAO Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research Joint Working Party on Poverty in Small-Scale Fisheries

Author: FAO Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research Joint Working Party on Poverty in Small-Scale Fisheries

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9789251047941

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The objectives of the meeting were to: (i) share experience and knowledge on this subject; (ii) identify clearly how the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries could serve as a tool in poverty alleviation in fishing communities; (iii) identify critical knowledge gaps and research needs; and (iv) elaborate a project framework and research methodologies.

Report of the Sixth Session of the Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research
Report of the Sixth Session of the Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research. Session

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9789251056585

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The Advisory Committee held its sixth session in Rome, Italy in October 2006 and topics discussed included: a review of the work of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department with a focus on fish trade, small-scale fisheries and aquaculture; and support for the work of FAO in aquaculture, particularly the timely inclusion of fish species in the Programme of Work of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.