Appendix A: AGENDA

1. Opening of the Session
2. Adoption of the Agenda and arrangements for the Session
3. Activities of APFIC since the twenty-ninth Session
4. Overview: status and potential of fisheries and aquaculture in Asia and the Pacific region
5. APFIC's strategy and promotion of regional initiatives for more effective fisheries management
• Regional consultative forum
• Facilitating regional agreements and arrangements
• Promoting regional dialogue
• Capacity building
• Responses by the commission and observers
6. Regional themes: certification in fisheries and aquaculture; capacity management and combating IUU fishing
• Responses by the commission and observers
7. Policy, emerging issues and implementation of CCRF
• Report from the regional consultative forum
• Other emerging issues in the fisheries sector
• Regional arrangements and initiatives
• Regionally important outcomes of international fora
• Conclusions of the RFB secretariats network meeting (RSN1)
• CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna & Flora)
• Reporting on the implementation of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (CCRF)
8. APFIC work in next biennium 2009-2010
• Responses by the commission and observers
9. Other Matters

11. Election of Officers
12. Date and place of the Thirty-first Session of APFIC
13. Adoption of the Report