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21 February 2014, Bergen/Rome – The booming world fish trade is generating more wealth than ever before, but countries must help small-scale fishers and fish farmers benefit too, FAO said today.Global fishery production from wild capture fisheries and aquaculture is...

25 experts of member States of and observers to the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) convened in Rome, 23–25 February 2015, at the first meeting of the Global Record Informal Open-Ended Technical and Advisory Working Group. The experts agreed that the...

At its thirty-first Session, the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) reiterated its support for the continued development of the Global Record by FAO and some Members recognized the need for an advisory committee to clarify outstanding issues and to find a solution...

Whilst reiterating its support for the Global Record’s continued development by FAO, the thirty-first session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI), held in Rome (9 – 13 June 2014), commended FAO on the preparation of the strategy document and the...

Work on the Global Record has progressed since COFI 30 session in addressing all COFI requests. In addition, FAO is presenting a Strategy Document on the proposed way forward for the Global Record and is demonstrating a Prototype System at...