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Report of the fifteenth session of the Coordinating Working Party on Atlantic Fishery Statistics, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, 8-14 July 1992.

Year of publication 1992

Pages 34pp.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Category Technical report

ISBN 9251032308

Series title FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report

Series number 2070-6987|ISSN 2070-6987|20706987 - R473

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The Report of the Fifteenth Session of the Coordinating Working Party on Atlantic Fishery Statistics (CWP) held in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, 8-14 July 1992, is presented. The participating agencies were: FAO, Eurostat, ICCAT, ICES, OECD and NAFO. Major topics considered were: recommendations and proposals from CWP-14 and progress; agency programmes and publications presenting Atlantic fishery statistics; high seas fisheries statistics; elimination of discrepancies in agency databases; quan tities and values of landings; STATLANT questionnaires; misreporting/non-reporting of data; inland fisheries concepts and definitions; aquaculture statistics (separation of aquaculture data from catch data, definition of aquaculture, hatchery data); recreational fisheries; conversion factors; data transmission using electronic and magnetic media; use of ICCA T tuna data by regional agencies; fishing vessel statistics (including world register of tuna vessels); food balance sheets; the publicatio n "Handbook of Fishery Statistics"; STATLANT Newsletter; country and nationality issues; species concepts and definitions; the CWP and its functions.

Statutory body / Meeting title Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics (CWP)

Meeting Session Number 15th

Language English

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