Report of the First Meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Future of APFIC - Virtual meeting, 18–19 August 2021 and Report of the Second Meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Future of APFIC - Virtual meeting, 24–25 February 2022

2022

The Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC) was established in 1948 and has undergone various reforms since then to adapt to the changing international governance of fisheries as well as reforms in the function and resourcing of FAO’s regional fishery bodies. This gradually induced a major crisis in the commission’s ability to develop and execute a work programme for servicing its members. The 36th Session of the Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission, held in May 2021, recognized the...

Review of the role of the Asia‐Pacific Fishery Commission as a Regional Consultative Forum

2003

This document reviews and analyses the background to the development of APFIC as a Regional Consultative Forum. The consultant’s report addresses the question “How can APFIC act as a consultative forum that is responsive to Members needs?” and is provided in the first instance for the deliberations of the APFIC Executive Committee.    Part 1 of the document acknowledges the importance of fisheries and aquaculture in the Asia‐Pacific region and globally. In recent years APFIC, the FAO’s...

Text of the Resolution 1/116 adopted by the 116 Session of FAO Council (Rome, 14 - 19 June 1999)

1999

Text of the Resolution 1/116 adopted by the 116 Session of FAO Council (Rome, 14 - 19 June 1999) "Abolition of the Indian Ocean Fishery Commission and its Subsidiary Bodies - Approval of the Merger of the Committee for the Development and Management of Fisheries in the Bay of Bengal with the Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission"