This document presents the final report of the sixty-eighth session of the Executive Committee of the Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC) which was held at the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand, from 5 to 7 July 2000. Major topics discussed were: progress reports on the inter-sessional activities of APFIC; reports of the Ad hoc Legal and...

Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC) - report of the APFIC special session, Rome, Italy, 17 February 1999 and report of the ad hoc legal and financial working group Bangkok, Thailand, 6-8 July 1999 At the Twenty-sixth Session of the Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC) held in Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 24-30 September 1998, the Commission reviewed the activities and achievements of APFIC...

International cooperation in fisheries does not constitute a recent and novel development in the history of relations among nations. Already in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries several treaties were concluded with a view to solving, among other things, problems which, at that time, were mainly related to fishing rights, the safety of fishing vessels, rescue operations, and access to foreign...

This is the final report of the Twenty-sixth Session of the Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC), held in Beijing, PR China from 24-30 September, 1998. Major topics discussed were : fish utilization in the Asia-Pacific region; current issues on capture fisheries in Asia and the Pacific; issues related to the development of sustainable aquaculture; achievement of APFIC and its future direction;...