Report of the Thirtieth Session of the Committee on Fisheries

Download or read book Report of the Thirtieth Session of the Committee on Fisheries written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Committee on Fisheries. Session and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 2013 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirtieth session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) was held in Rome, Italy, from 9 to 13 July 2012. The Committee reviewed the issues of an international character and the FAO programme in fisheries and aquaculture, and their implementation. The Committee, while stressing the high value of the State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture as a flagship publication, recommended that FAO should provide more support to countries in data collection and quality control, as well as consider a simpler classification of stock status. The Committee expressed strong support for the standards and norms of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and its related instruments and agreed on further effort to facilitate their accessibility and more effective implementation. The Committee agreed on the development of best practice guidelines for traceability. The Committee reiterated its support to FAO's collaboration with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Faun