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Programmes under FIE responsibility-Fisheries and Aquaculture Economics
and Policy Division
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  Programme entities led by FIEL
 

  Implementation of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (Including Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture) and Related Instruments

Objective
National and international fisheries management practices, policies and legislation better reflect principles and provisions of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, specifically including gender concerns.

Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries

Global Partnerships for Responsible Fisheries (FishCode)
  Promotion and Strengthening of Regional Fisheries and Aquaculture Bodies and Arrangements

Objective
To ensure a sustainable and responsible development of fisheries and aquaculture through the adoption at the global and regional level of the appropriate guidance, principles, standards and measures.

  Support to COFI and associated Meetings

Objective
Development and adoption at a global level of commitments, recommendations and instruments on principles and standards providing guidance for ensuring the sustainable development of responsible fisheries and aquaculture, improving the status of the resources and associated ecosystems and strengthening their role and contribution to food security, economic growth, povert alleviation and human well-being.

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  Global socioeconomic analysis of fisheries and aquaculture and of their contribution to food security, poverty alleviation and economic growth

Objective
Generated knowledge and critical information made available for global, regional and national policy-making and through capacity buiding, leading to an improved.

  Technical Support Services to Members and the Field Programme

Objective
The secondary users will have access to a detailed assessment of policy issues and to suggestions for how they should be tackled, formulated by experienced analysts. Local analysts will have an understanding of the procedures and judgements which have gone into the formulation of the policy recommendations. This will facilitate acceptance of new policies by national policy making bodies.

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  Support to the Strategy for Improving Information on Status and Trends of Capture Fisheries (Strategy-STF) through FIRMS and other FIGIS Partnerships

Objective
Increased awareness of key fisheries issues and trends and their inter-relationship with other aspects of integrated natural resource management; and better informed public debate in support of sustainable management of fisheries resources at the national and international levels, based on improved international fishery information standards and quality.

Fishery Resources Monitoring System

Fisheries Global Information System

  Provision of Fisheries Information and Statistics

Objective
Availability of comprehensive, standardized global fisheries information and statistics and wide use by governments and other stakeholders to promote awareness of key fisheries issues and trends in support of decision-making, as well as to serve policy formulation in the sector.

Fisheries Statistics Programme


Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts


Fisheries and Aquaculture Branch Library