Joint Ventures in Fishery Development in the CECAF Area













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PROJECT FOR DEVELOPMENT OF FISHERIES IN
THE EASTERN CENTRAL ATLANTIC

CECAF/ECAF SERIES/75/3 (En)


FISHERIES COMMITTEE FOR THE EASTERN CENTRAL ATLANTIC

JOINT VENTURES IN FISHERY DEVELOPMENT IN THE CECAF AREA

BY

R. HAMLISCH AND G.K.F. MOORE

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
Rome, 1975

THE EASTERN CENTRAL ATLANTIC FISHERIES DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

The Council of FAO established, in 1967, the Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF) for the region from the Strait of Gibraltar to the mouth of the Congo River. Its membership includes African nations along the coast and a number of non-African nations conducting fishing in this general region. The present members are: Cameroon, Congo, Cuba, Dahomey, France, Gabon, Ghana, Greece, Guinea (Republic of), Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Korea (Republic of), Liberia, Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Poland, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America and Zaire, and Gambia.

At the Third Session of CECAF held at Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, in December 1972, representatives from the developed countries, members of CECAF, indicated that their governments would provide assistance to African countries members of CECAF for programmes to be coordinated under a regional scheme and an outcome of this was that a fishery development programme combining UNDP assistance and non-UNDP overseas collaboration was conceived and approved by UNDP on 8 October 1974.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is the executing agency for the CECAF Project which covers the period from February 1973 to July 1578. This paper, as well as others in a series referred to as ECAF Pub. Ser., provides information gathered during the duration of the Project.

This electronic document has been scanned using optical character recognition (OCR) software and careful manual recorrection. Even if the quality of digitalisation is high, the FAO declines all responsibility for any discrepancies that may exist between the present document and its original printed version.


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INTRODUCTION

SOME SALIENT FEATURES OP FISHERIES JOINT VENTURES IN THE CECAF AREA

PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED IN JOINT VENTURES IN THE CECAF AREA

FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR JOINT VENTURE EXPANSION

POINTS TO CONSIDER IN NEGOTIATING JOINT VENTURE AGREEMENTS

THE ROLE OF THE FAO

SUGGESTED ACTION BY THE COMMITTEE

SOURCES OF INFORMATION