Report
Report of the First Session of the Sub-Committee on Fisheries Management, Virtual Meeting, 15−18 January 2024
The First Session of the Sub-Committee on Fisheries Management of the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) was held virtually from 15 to 18 January 2024. It was attended by 95 Members of COFI, plus one Member Organization, three specialized agencies of the United Nations, observers from 14 other FAO Member Nations and 45 observers from intergovernmental and international non-governmental organizations. The Sub-Committee stressed the importance of fisheries in ending poverty, hunger and malnutrition, and emphasized the need for effective fisheries management to ensure the sustainability of fisheries.
Documents
Working Documents | ||
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COFI:FM/I/2024/1/Rev.1 | Provisional Agenda | (Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh) |
COFI:FM/I/2024/2 | Current fisheries management practices with special considerations for small-scale fisheries | (Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh) |
COFI:FM/I/2024/3 | Addressing illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the context of effective fisheries management | (Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh) |
COFI:FM/I/2024/4 | Mainstreaming biodiversity in fisheries management in the context of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework | (Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh) |
COFI:FM/I/2024/5 | Climate resilient fisheries | (Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh) |
COFI:FM/I/2024/6 | Improving FAO’s periodic assessment of the state of world fishery resources: updates to the FAO State of Stocks Index (SoSI) | (Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh) |
Information Documents** | ||
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COFI:FM/I/2024/INF/1/Rev.1 | Provisional timetable | (Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh) |
COFI:FM/I/2024/INF/2 | Provisional list of documents | (Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh) |
COFI:FM/I/2024/INF/3 | List of participants | |
COFI:FM/I/2024/INF/4 | Report of the Thirty-fifth Session of the COFI – Appendix G Terms of Reference for the Sub-Committee on Fisheries Management | (Ar, Es, Fr, Ru, Zh) |
COFI:FM/I/2024/INF/5 | Fisheries management practices: a global analysis from the Code Questionnaire | (Es, Fr) |
COFI:FM/I/2024/INF/6 | Small-scale fisheries management: challenges and opportunities | (Es, Fr) |
COFI:FM/I/2024/INF/7 | Inland fisheries: enabling positive outcomes from fisheries and integrated water resource management | (Es, Fr) |
COFI:FM/I/2024/INF/8 | Other effective area-based conservation measures | (Es, Fr) |
COFI:FM/I/2024/INF/9 | Declaration of Competences and Voting Rights submitted by the European Union and its Member States |
**For Information Documents automatic translations in Spanish and French are provided for Members' reference. FAO does not guarantee the accuracy of the translations, so please always refer to the English version.
Session Background Documents | ||
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COFI:FM/I/2024/SBD/1 | Illuminating Hidden Harvests: The contributions of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development | (English only) |