The final report of the Fifth Session of the CECAF Working Party on Fishery Statistics held in Accra, Ghana, from 5 to 7 October 1994 is presented. Topics considered included: The review of CECAF statistical system; methodological operational and data processing aspects of artisanal fisheries, collection, analysis and presentation of industrial fisheries statistics; survey of landings of international fleet based in Las Palmas. The decisions, directives and recommendations are presented in Appendix G.
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Committee for Inland Fisheries of Africa. Working Party on Pollution and Fisheries. Session
This document contains the report of the Fifth Meeting of the Aquaculture Subject Group and the Twenty-sixth meeting of the Fisheries Subject of CWP, held during the Intersessional Aquaculture and Fisheries Subject Group meeting of the Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics (CWP-IS), which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 19 to 22 June 2017. The work was organized between joint sessions to address issues of general interest, with the Subject Groups – Aquaculture (CWP-AS) and Fis heries (CWP-FS) –organized in concurrent sessions, to address matters related to the intersessional programme for each Subject Group. The meeting reviewed the progress made since the Twenty-fifth session of the CWP and agreed on actions for the second part of the intersessional period, prior to the upcoming Twenty-sixth session of the CWP to be held early in 2019. The main issues presented and discussed were the dissemination of the revised handbook on the CWP web page and the further enhancemen t of the socio-economic and GIS section of the handbook, the CWP ad hoc task group on “reference harmonization for capture fisheries and aquaculture statistics”, and the progress made by the Task Force in establishing the standard aquaculture questionnaire.
The fifth Meeting of the WECAFC Working Group (WG) on Fisheries using Anchored (or Moored) Fish Aggregating Devices (aFAD) was held in a hybrid format from 17–19 April 2023, hosted by the Commonwealth of Dominica. The meeting was attended by various WECAFC Members, including Barbados, Brazil, Colombia, Commonwealth of Dominica, Dominican Republic, European Union, France, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and the United States of America. The objectives included reviewing data and recent developments in member countries with aFAD fisheries, discussing working documents related to the implementation of the 2022–2024 workplan, providing a status update on the implementation of relevant instruments and recommendations, and developing recommendations and a proposed work plan for future work.
Conclusions of the 25th session of the Committee included: the need for a strategy to improve information on capture fisheries; reaffirmation of the need for global implementation of measures against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing; the importance of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and its related International Plans of Action (IPOAs) in promoting long-term sustainable development of fisheries; and identification of key priority work areas for 2004-05.
The meeting saw the active participation of Government officials, researchers, and other stakeholders from WECAFC, Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), and Organization for the Fishing and Aquaculture Sector of the Central American Isthmus (OSPESCA), and 14 countries/territories member countries that engage in the research, harvest and management of fish species that aggregate to spawn in the WECAFC region. The meeting discussed country updates towards the national and regional management of spawning aggregations. These updates include new regulatory measures, new priority species distinctions, and upcoming activities towards spawning aggregation management. The meeting also included plenary discussions on: • educational and communication materials related to the Working Group (WG). The WG was presented with an update on the progress made to date on these materials. They were also reminded of the intended use of these materials; • the regional communicaton strategy, including the diversity of engagement opportunites through short films, blogs and press releases; • a new regional project funded by the European Union Directorate General for Marine Affairs (EU DG MARE) and the associated program of work to be accomplished under the project; and • updating the previously submitted recommendation WECAFC/XVIII/2022/4.
The FAO Corporate Statistical Programme of Work (SPW) provides an overview and a detailed description of the statistical activities carried out by all FAO divisions active in the field of statistics. The first SPW was compiled in 2010 with the scope of providing a clear overview of ongoing statistical work at FAO. Since then it has become a regular activity. This is the sixth version and covers the 2020–2021 biennium. Directed towards both internal and external users, this series is intended to serve as a useful tool for improving transparency and external visibility of the FAO Statistical System, as well as for stimulating joint efforts among international organizations in many areas. Internally, it plays an important role to increase the coordination between the various actors of the system.