Summary Information on the Role of International Fishery Organizations or Arrangements and Other Bodies Concerned with the Conservation and Management of Living Aquatic Resources

FAO Fisheries Circular No. 985

FIPL/C985
ISSN 0429-9329

Table of Contents

by
Judith Swan
SwanSea Oceans Environment Inc.

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 2003

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Table of Contents

PREPARATION OF THIS CIRCULAR

LIST OF ACRONYMS

I. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARIES

I.1 Background and Methodology
I.2 Summary of Trends in Issues Important to RFBs

I.2.1 Management
I.2.2 Science/Research
I.2.3 Institutional
I.2.4 Development

I.3 Summary of Responses on the Implementation of Post-UNCED Fishery Instruments
I.4 Summary of Responses on Activities Addressing Specific Issues

II. REGIONAL FISHERY BODIES IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AND ADJACENT SEAS

II.1 Atlantic Africa Fisheries Conference: Ministerial Conference on Fisheries Cooperation among African States Bordering the Atlantic Ocean (AAFC)
II.2 Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF)
II.3 Joint Technical Commission for the Argentina/Uruguay Maritime Front (COFREMAR)
II.4 Regional Fisheries Committee for the Gulf of Guinea (Comité Régional des Pêches du Golfe de Guinée) (COREP)
II.5 General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM)
II.6 International Baltic Sea Fishery Commission (IBSFC)
II.7 International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
II.8 Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO)
II.9 North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO)
II.10 Northeast Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC)
II.11 Southeast Atlantic Fisheries Organization (SEAFO)
II.12 Sub-Regional Commission on Fisheries (SRCF/CSRP)
II.13 Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (WECAFC)

III. INDIAN, INDO-PACIFIC OCEAN

III.1 Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC)
III.2 Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC)
III.3 Regional Commission for Fisheries (RECOFI)
III.4 Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC)
III.5 Western Indian Ocean Tuna Organization (WIOTO)

IV. PACIFIC OCEAN

IV.1 Council of the Eastern Pacific Tuna Fishing Agreement (CEPTFA)
IV.2 Permanent South Pacific Commission/Commission permanente du Pacifique Sud (CPPS)
IV.3 South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA)
IV.4 Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)
IV.5 International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC)
IV.6 North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC)
IV.7 Eastern Pacific Tuna Fishing Organization (OAPO)
IV.8 Pacific Salmon Commission (PSC)
IV.9 South Pacific Commission (SPC)

V. TRANS-OCEAN

V.1 Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
V.2 Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT)
V.3 Latin American Organization for Fishery Development (OLDEPESCA)

VI. INLAND

VI.1 Committee for Inland Fisheries of Africa (CIFA)
VI.2 Commission for Inland Fisheries of Latin America (COPESCAL)
VI.3 European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission (EIFAC)
VI.4 Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization (LVFO)
VI.5 Mekong River Commission (MRC)

VII. MARINE MAMMALS

VII.1 International Whaling Commission (IWC)
VII.2 North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO)

VIII. RESEARCH

VIII.1 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
VIII.2 North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES)

IX. OTHER

IX.1 Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics (CWP)

APPENDIX 1: SUMMARY INFORMATION ON FISHERY BODIES

APPENDIX 2: CONTACTS OF REGIONAL FISHERY BODIES

APPENDIX 3: SUMMARY INFORMATION ON THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL FISHERY ORGANIZATIONS OR ARRANGEMENTS AND OTHER BODIES CONCERNED WITH THE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF LIVING AQUATIC RESOURCES

APPENDIX 4: INDICATIVE ISSUES IMPORTANT TO REGIONAL FISHERY BODIES

APPENDIX 5: IMPLEMENTATION OF POST-UNCED INTERNATIONAL FISHERY INSTRUMENTS

APPENDIX 6: ADDRESSING SPECIFIC ISSUES