In 2005 the Twenty-sixth Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) adopted FAO Guidelines for the Ecolabelling of Fish and Fishery Products from Marine Capture Fisheries, and at the same time recommended that FAO prepare international guidelines on the ecolabelling [...]

La Transferencia Tecnológica (TT) se ha convertido en uno de los mecanismos más importantes de apoyo al desarrollo de diversos sectores de la economía de los países de América del Sur. En el ámbito de la producción regional de alimentos, [...]

Available information on recruitment, stock and fisheries continues to support and reinforce the advice that the European eel stock has declined in most of the distribuȬ tion area and is outside safe biological limits. Recruitment of glass eel to the [...]

The challenges and prospects of developing a community based generalizable method to assess mangrove ecosystems vulnerability and adaptation to climate change impacts: Experience from Cameroon Protecting Mangroves: The Role of the African Mangrove Network The Application of the Ecosystem Approach to Mangrove [...]

This report summarizes the presentations, discussions, and recommendations of the 2007 session of the Joint EIFAC/ICES Working Group, which took place in CEMAGREF, Bor‐ deaux, France, from 3 to 7 September 2007. Information on recruitment, stock, and fisheries reviewed by [...]

At the FAO and the World Bank workshop in April 2008 where all the five Caspian countries participated it was agreed: “that a workshop should be held under the TCP Project with the following objectives: (i) identify, develop and test [...]

Fisheries policy in Bangladesh is still trying to get to grips with the major (universal) dilemmas of maximizing benefits from natural resources while, at the same time, ensuring an acceptable degree of equity in distribution of benefits and protecting the [...]

Fishing methods range from those which require only simple gear such as spears and rakes to the use of ocean-going vessels with enormous trawls or encircling nets. Gill netting, seine netting, electric fishing and angling are probably the most common [...]

This publication is the report of the 2006 session of the Joint European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission (EIFAC) and International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Working Group on Eels which was held in Rome from 23 to [...]

This volume includes 29 peer-reviewed papers presented at the Fifth Conference on Fish Telemetry held in Europe (Ustica, Italy, 9-13 June 2003). The papers cover a wide range of topics on the application of aquatic telemetry in the field of [...]