The Second Session of the Working Party on Small-scale Fisheries of the FAO Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research was held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 18 to 21 November 2003. The Session agreed on a Vision Statement and on a Characterization of small-scale fisheries as well as on a research agenda of five main themes. It elaborated preliminary drafts of two separate technical documents on the contribution, role and importance of small-scale fisheries and research agenda for small-scale fisheries and requested that the documents be submitted, after finalization by the Secretariat, to ACFR at its next session.
