The Workshop suggested follow-up action as described below:
(a) The participating governments should take early action to incorporate the draft national development plans prepared during the Workshop in the national economic development/fishery development plans of the country. Consultations within the country between representatives of Fishery Departments (both at national and regional or state levels as appropriate), national planning units and aid-giving agencies may be required for this purpose,(b) The draft national plans for aquaculture development should form the basis for external assistance requests in the field of aquaculture. Action should be taken to include the aid required from UNDP sources for the implementation of the plans in the UNDP Country Programmes. Projects requiring assistance from bilateral and multilateral sources should be formulated with the help of short-term consultants, if necessary. Regional aquaculturists in the FAO Regional Offices and specialists in the FAO/UNDP projects (national, regional and inter-regional) should provide the necessary help in this regard.
(c) The ADCP should make available, as soon as possible, the services of a team of experts for undertaking feasibility studies in the participating countries,
(d) ADCP should formulate detailed proposals for the establishment of a Regional Aquaculture Centre for research and training, linked to national research and training centres. Early action should be taken to establish the centre,
(e) As an interim measure, ADCP should establish an ad hoc crash training programme at suitable centres to train an adequate number of English-speaking and French-speaking candidates in order to initiate expanded development activities in the various countries of the region.
(f) When the necessary aquaculture staff are recruited, FAO Regional Offices in Accra and Cairo should initiate a suitable system of collection and dissémination of information of special interest to African countries. Ways and means of prompting exchange of personnel and organization of study tours for senior personnel should be investigated.,
(g) FAO Regional Office in Accra should organize, in cooperation with ADCP, consultations on possibilities of aquaculture development in the LDC's of Africa, in order to formulate specific plans for solving the problem peculiar to these countries.
(h) CIFA of FAO should consider at its next session in Accra, Ghana, in September 1975, ways and means of regulating the introduction of exotic species, control of communicable fish diseases and control of aquatic pollution affecting aquaculture.
(i) ADCP should coordinate bilateral and multilateral assistance programmes in the field of aquaculture to ensure the best possible use of aid programmes. It should help governments in obtaining financial assistance for development programmes.
