FAO Fisheries Report No. 311FIPL/R311(En)
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REPORT
of the
THIRTEENTH SESSION OF THE EUROPEAN INLAND FISHERIES ADVISORY COMMISSION
CONTENTS

Aarhus, Denmark, 23–30 May 1984


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PREPARATION OF THIS DOCUMENT

The present text is the final version of the report adopted on 30 May 1984 by the participants in the thirteenth session of the European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission.

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FAO, 1984 Report of the thirteenth session of the European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission Aarhus, Denmark, 23–30 May 1984. FAO Fish.Rep., (311): 42 p.

SUMMARY
The thirteenth session of the European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission (EIFAC) was held in Aarhus from 23–30 May 1984. The session reviewed EIFAC activities since 1982 in the fields of fishery biology and management, fish culture and diseases and water pollution control. EIFAC decided its future programme of work and in particular the activities which should be carried out until the fourteenth session scheduled to take place in France in 1986. A three-day Symposium on Habitat Modification and Fresh-water Fisheries was held in conjunction with the session.

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CONTENTS

DECISIONS, DIRECTIVES AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE THIRTEENTH SESSION OF EIFAC

I.   INTRODUCTION

II.   OPENING OF THE SESSION

III.   SYMPOSIUM ON HABITAT MODIFICATION AND FRESHWATER FISHERIES

A.   Introduction

B.   Damming and Canalization of Rivers

C.   Land Drainage, Gravel Extraction and Other Habitat Changes

D.   Lake Regulation and Recreational Use

E.   Afforestation

F.   Environmental Impact Statement and Code of Practice

G.   Recommendation

IV.   ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA FOR THE SESSION

V.   CHAIRMAN'S REPORT ON INTERSESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

VI.   FISH AND POLLUTED WATER (SUB-COMMISSION III)

A.   Report of the Working Party on Water Quality Criteria for European Freshwater Fish

B.   Report of the Working Party on Fish Farm Effluents

C.   Report on the Working Party on Fish Toxicity Testing Procedures

D.   Report on Other Activities

E.   Future Programme

F.   Election of Officers of Sub-Commission III

VII.   FISHERY BIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT (SUB-COMMISSION I)

A.   COPLAKE

B.   Fishing Gear Selectivity

C.   Crayfish

D.   Eel

E.   Allocation of Fishery Resources

F.   International Intercalibration Exercise

G.   Ageing of Coarse Fish

H.   Stock Enhancement

I.   Species Synopses

J.   Acid Rain

K.   Election of Officers of Sub-Commission I

VIII.   REPORT OF THE JOINT MEETING OF SUB-COMMISSIONS I AND III TO CONSIDER AND ADOPT THE REPORT OF THE SYMPOSIUM ON HABITAT MODIFICATION AND FRESHWATER FISHERIES

IX.   FISH CULTURE AND DISEASES (SUB-COMMISSION II)

A.   Working Party on Terminology, Format and Units of Measurement as Related to Flow-through and Recirculation Systems

B.   Fish Diseases (COPRAQ)

C.   Assessment of the Quality of Salmonid Fry and Fingerlings for Aquaculture Stocking

D.   Standardization of Aquaculture Terminology

E.   Economics of Small-Scale Aquaculture

F.   Literature Review on Fish Transportation

G.   Prevention and Control of Bird Predation

H.   Priorities in the Field of Activity of Sub-Commission II

I.   EIFAC Workshop on Eel Culture

J.   Election of Officers of Sub-Commission II

X.   WORKING PARTY ON STOCK ENHANCEMENT

XI.   NATIONAL REPORTS FOR THE INTERSESSIONAL PERIOD

XII.   SYMPOSIUM IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE FOURTEENTH SESSION

XIII.   ANY OTHER MATTERS

XIV.   ELECTION OF EIFAC OFFICERS

XV.   DATE AND PLACE OF THE FOURTEENTH SESSION

XVI.   ADOPTION OF THE REPORT

APPENDICES A   Agenda

B   List of Participants in the Session

C   List of Participants in the Symposium

D   List of Documents Submitted to the Session

E   Summary of the Activities of EIFAC Since its Last Session by G. Leynaud, Chairman of EIFAC

F   Report of the Third Meeting of the Working Party on Fish-Farm Effluents

G   Report of the Working Party on the Cooperative Research Programme on Lake Fisheries Management (COPLAKE)

H   Report of the Working Party on Selectivity of Inland Water Fishing Gear

I   Report of the Working Party on Crayfish

J   Report of the Working Party on the Allocation of Fishery Resources

K   Report of the Working Party on Ageing of Coarse Fish

L   EIFAC - National Correspondents

M   List of EIFAC Working Parties in Activity

DECISIONS, DIRECTIVES AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE THIRTEENTH SESSION OF EIFAC

Fishery Biology and Management (Sub-Commission I)

  • Publication of the report on inland fisheries institutions and workers (paragraph 42)

  • Possible item for a workshop: population dynamics (paragraph 43)

  • Publication of available literature on fishing gear selectivity (paragraph 44)

  • Preparation of a report on binational experiments (paragraph 44)

  • Establishment of an ad hoc group aiming at assessment of coregonids (paragraph 44)

  • Tentative theme for a symposium in conjunction with the fifteenth session (paragraph 45)

  • Publication of the reports on status of crayfish stocks and fisheries and on institutes, research workers and programmes (paragraph 46)

  • Preparation of a programme on future activities of the Working Party on Crayfish (paragraph 48)

  • Preparation of new terms of reference for the Working Party on eel (paragraph 50)

  • Publication of the report on Lake Constance intercalibration experiment (paragraph 53)

  • Preparation of an atlas of scales and other bony structures (paragraph 55)

Fish Culture and Diseases (Sub-Commission II)

  • Publication of the report on terminology, format and units of measurements as related to flow-through and recirculation systems (paragraph 72)

  • Compilation of information on legislations on fish diseases (paragraph 74)

  • Preparation of a report on the quality of salmonid fry and fingerlings (paragraph 76)

  • Standardization of aquaculture terminology (paragraph 78)

  • Publication of literature review on fish transportation (paragraph 82)

  • Finalization of report on bird predation (paragraph 86) and review of literature on this subject (paragraph 87)

  • Workshop on eel culture to be held in 1985 (paragraph 92)

Fish and Polluted Water (Sub-Commission III)

  • Publication of reports on the effects of nitrite and nickel (paragraph 26)

  • Review on aluminium (paragraph 28)

  • Encouragement of research on fish farm effluents (paragraph 30)

  • Broadening of the scope of the report on accumulated toxicants in fish (paragraph 34)

  • Review of procedures in evaluation of aquatic toxicity of new pesticides (paragraph 36)

  • Updating of technical paper No. 37 (paragraph 37)

Habitat Modification and Freshwater Fisheries

  • Endorsement of the recommendation of the symposium (paragraphs 20 and 67)

  • Desirability to enact new legislations (paragraph 69)

  • Preparation of a bibliography on causes of the damage to marginal vegetation (paragraph 69)

  • Publication of the proceedings of the symposium (paragraph 5)

Stock Enhancement

  • Code of practice to be forwarded to Member States (paragraph 97)

  • Establishment of a Working Party on Introductions (paragraph 98)

  • Establishment of a Working Party on Stocking (paragraphs 57 and 98)

  • Publication of the report of the Working Party on Stock Enhancement (paragraph 99)

Preparation of National Reports (paragraph 103)

Symposium in Conjunction with the Fourteenth Session

  • Theme of the symposium: genetics, selection and hybridization in aquaculture (paragraphs 89 and 104)

Election of Officers of the Sub-Commissions and the Commission (paragraphs 39, 61, 93 and 106)

Place and Date of the Fourteenth Session

  • France, from 27 May to 3 June 1986