FAO Fisheries Report No. 267FIPL/R267(En)
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REPORT
of the
TWELFTH SESSION OF THE
EUROPEAN INLAND FISHERIES ADVISORY COMMISSION
CONTENTS


Budapest, Hungary, 31 May – 5 June 1982


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PREPARATION OF THIS DOCUMENT

The present text is the final version of the report adopted on 5 June 1982 by the participants in the twelfth session of the European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission.

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SUMMARY

The twelfth session of the European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission (EIFAC) was held in Budapest from 31 May to 5 June 1982. The session reviewed EIFAC activities since 1980 in the fields of fishery biology and management, fish culture and diseases and water pollution control. EIFAC decided its future programme of work and in particular the activities which should be carried out until the thirteenth session scheduled to take place in Denmark in 1984. A three-day Symposium on Stock Enhancement in the Management of Freshwater Fisheries was held in conjunction with the session.

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CONTENTS

DECISIONS, DIRECTIVES AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE TWELFTH SESSION OF EIFAC

I.   INTRODUCTION

II.   OPENING OF THE SESSION

III.   ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA

IV.   SYMPOSIUM ON STOCK ENHANCEMENT IN THE MANAGEMENT OF FRESHWATER FISHERIES

A.   Introduction

B.   Stocking

C.   Transfers

D.   Conclusions and Recommendations

V.   FISHERY BIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT (SUB-COMMISSION I)

A.   Cooperative Programme on Lake Fisheries Management (COPLAKE)

B.   Crayfish

C.   Eel

D.   Follow-up to Technical Consultation on the Allocation of Fishery Resources

E.   International Intercalibration Exercise

F.   Species Synopses

G.   Ageing of Coarse Fish

H.   Terms of Reference of Sub-Commission I

I.   Adoption of Reports

J.   Future Activities for Sub-Commission I

K.   Election of Officers of Sub-Commission I

VI.   FISH CULTURE AND DISEASES (SUB-COMMISSION II)

A.   Symposium on New Developments in the Utilization of Heated Effluents and of Recirculation Systems for Intensive Aquaculture - Follow-up Actions

B.   Flow-through Systems and Recirculation Systems

C.   EIFAC Cooperative Programme of Research on Aquaculture (COPRAQ) -Fish Diseases

D.   Prophylactic Measures in Fish Culture

E.   Assessment of the Fry/Fingerling Quality for Aquaculture/Restocking

F.   Mass Production of Warmwater Fish Eggs and Larvae

G.   Standardization of Aquaculture Terminology

H.   Economics of Small-Scale Aquaculture

I.   Crayfish and Eel Culture

J.   EIFAC Workshop on Fish-Farm Effluents

K.   Questionnaire on Preferable Priorities in the Field of Activity for Sub-Commission II

L.   Adoption of Documents

M.   Any Other Matters

N.   Election of Officers of Sub-Commission II

VII.   FISH AND POLLUTED WATER (SUB-COMMISSION III)

A.   Report of the Working Party on Fish-Farm Effluents

B.   Report of the Working Party on Water Quality Criteria for Freshwater Fish

C.   Updating of EIFAC Technical Paper No. 16

D.   Report of the Working Party on Fish Toxicity Testing Procedures

E.   Habitat Modification

F.   Terms of Reference of Sub-Commission III

G.   Any Other Business

H.   Election of Officers of Sub-Commission III

VIII.   CONSIDERATION AND ADOPTION OF THE REPORTS OF THE SUB-COMMISSIONS

IX.   REPORTS FROM EIFAC MEMBER STATES

X.   CODE OF PRACTICE TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ADVERSE EFFECTS ARISING FROM THE INTRODUCTION OR TRANSFER OF INLAND FISH SPECIES

XI.   INPUT OF EIFAC TO DEVELOPING WORLD

XII.   SYMPOSIUM IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE THIRTEENTH SESSION

XIII.   ANY OTHER MATTERS

XIV.   ELECTION OF EIFAC OFFICERS

XV.   DATE AND PLACE OF THE THIRTEENTH SESSION

XVI.   ADOPTION OF THE REPORT

APPENDIX A   Agenda

B   List of Participants

C   List of Documents Presented to the Session

D   Summary of Activities Carried Out by EIFAC During the Intersessional Period

E   Report of the Working Party on Cooperative Research Programme on Lake Fisheries Management (COPLAKE)

F   Report of the Working Party on Crayfish

G   Report of the Working Party on Allocation of Fishery Resources

H   Minutes of the Meeting of the Steering Committee of the EIFAC Intercalibration Exercise

I   Report of the First and Second Sessions of the Working Party on Fish-Farm Effluents

J   Report of the Twenty-First Meeting of the Working Party on Water Quality Criteria for European Freshwater Fish

DECISIONS, DIRECTIVES AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE TWELFTH SESSION OF EIFAC

Fishery Biology and Management (Sub-Commission I)

  • Setting up of a Working Party on Fishing Gear Selectivity (Recommendation EIFAC 82/1, paragraph 27)

  • Review of the problem caused by acid rain (paragraph 28)

  • Preparation of a bibliography on crayfish (paragraph 32)

  • Establishment of a Working Party on Crayfish Aquaculture (paragraphs 33 and 63)

  • Investigations on eel contamination (paragraph 35)

  • Setting up of a Working Party on Eel Aquaculture (paragraphs 36 and 63)

  • Enquiry by the Netherlands and Poland on recreational fisheries (paragraph 38)

  • Intercalibration exercise in Lake Constance (paragraph 40)

  • Preparation of synopses on bream and roach (paragraph 42)

  • Sphere of interest of Sub-Commission I (paragraph 44)

Fish Culture and Diseases (Sub-Commission II)

  • Meeting, in early 1983, of the ad hoc group on flow-through systems and recirculation systems (paragraph 53)

  • New orientation of COPRAQ - Fish diseases (paragraph 55)

  • Workshop on Prophylactic Measures in Fish Culture (paragraph 56)

  • Quality of salmonid fry and fingerlings (Recommendation EIFAC 82/2, paragraph 57)

  • Standardization of aquaculture terminology (Recommendation EIFAC 82/3, paragraph 61)

  • Workshop on the economics of small-scale aquaculture (paragraph 62)

  • Priorities in Sub-Commission II activities (paragraph 66)

  • Prevention and control of bird predation (paragraph 69)

  • Review on fish transportation (paragraph 70)

Fish and Polluted Water (Sub-Commission III)

  • Terms of reference of the Working Party on Fish-Farm Effluents (paragraph 75)

  • Research programme on feeds (Recommendation EIFAC 82/4, paragraph 76)

  • Problems arising from fish-farming (Recommendation EIFAC 82/5, paragraph 78)

  • Publication of report "Chromium and European Freshwater Fish (Recommendation EIFAC 82/6, paragraph 80)

  • Updating of EIFAC Technical Paper No. 16 (paragraph 81)

  • Publication of a supplement to EIFAC Technical Paper No. 24 (Recommendation EIFAC 82/7, paragraph 82)

  • Terms of reference of Sub-Commission III (Recommendation EIFAC 82/9, paragraph 86)

  • Preparation of a paper on accumulated toxicants in fish (paragraph 88)

Reports of Member States

  • Dispatch of national reports to Chairman by end of 1983 (Recommendation EIFAC 82/10, paragraph 91)

Code of Practice on Introduction or Transfer of Species (paragraphs 19, 20, 23 and 92)

Input of EIFAC to Developing Countries (paragraphs 87, 94 and 95)

Symposium in Conjunction with the Thirteenth Session

  • Scope of the Symposium: effects of environmental modifications in freshwater fisheries (Recommendation EIFAC 82/8, paragraphs 85 and 96)

Election of Sub-Commissions and EIFAC Officers (paragraphs 47, 71, 89 and 99)

Date and Place of the Thirteenth Session

  • Aarhus, Denmark, tentatively from 30 May to 6 June 1984 (paragraph 101)