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SWIOFC - Report of the First Session of the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission. Mombasa, Kenya, 18 - 20 April 2005 / SWIOFC - Rapport de la première session de la Commission des pêches pour le sud-ouest de l’océan Indien. Mombasa, Kenya, 18 - 20 avril 2005

Year of publication 2006

Pages 68

Author FAO SAFR;Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division

Category Technical report

ISBN 9250055730

Series title FAO Fisheries Report

Series number 0429-9337 - R805

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The first session of the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission was attended by delegates from Comoros, European Community, France, Kenya, the Republic of Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa and the United Republic of Tanzania. Representatives of the Agulhas Somali Large Marine Ecosystem, the Indian Ocean Commission, the World Conservation Union, the Republic of Korea, the Southern African Development Community, the Swedish International Development Cooperati on Agency, the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Project, the United Nations Development Programme in Somalia, the Regional Seas Programme of the United Nations Environment Programme also attended the session as observers. The Commission adopted its Rules of Procedure and established a Scientific Committee. It examined outcomes of the Committee on Fisheries and the fourth meeting of Regional Fisheries Bodies Secretariats held in Rome in March 2005. It also reviewed fisheries management in the so uthwest Indian Ocean, discussed collaboration with other regional organizations and programmes, established a programme of work, and elected members of a Bureau to steer the Commission until the next session which will take place in Mozambique in August 2006.

Statutory body / Meeting title South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission (SWIOFC)

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FAO Subregional Office for Southern and East Africa/Bureau sous-régional pour l’Afrique australe et orientale. Report of the first session of the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission. Mombasa, Kenya, 18– 20 April 2005. Rapport de la première session de la Commission des pêches pour le sud-ouest de l’océan Indien. Mombasa, Kenya, 18-20 avril 2005. FAO Fisheries Report/FAO Rapport sur les pêches. No. 805. Rome, FAO. 2006. 68p.

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