3. The Second Ad Hoc Meeting was opened by Mr Ichiro Nomura, the Assistant Director-General of the FAO Fisheries Department. In welcoming the participants Mr Nomura noted that in many IGOs work related to fisheries subsidies had taken on an increased urgency following the decision of the WTO Ministerial Conference in Doha to consider fishery subsidies in the course of forthcoming trade negotiations. He welcomed participants to share information on present and future work related to fisheries subsidies and invited them to make concrete suggestions for future collaboration in this field.
