FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report No. 1071
Regional Commission for Fisheries
Report of the Seventh Meeting of the Recofi Working Group on Fisheries Management

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This document contains the report of the Seventh Meeting of the Regional Commission for Fisheries (RECOFI) working group on fisheries management (WGFM), which was held in Kuwait city, the State of Kuwait, from 5 to 7 November 2013. The WGFM addressed and made decisions on matters concerning relevant follow-up to the sixth meeting of the RECOFI WGFM and to the Seventh Session of RECOFI that was held in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, during the Period from 14 to 16 May 2013. Country reports on the status of national fisheries were presented and discussed. The WGFM formulated further work on the socio-economics of fisheries in the region. The enforcement of the recommendation on minimum data reporting was reviewed and the urgent need to establish a data access policy and protocol was considered. The WGFM identified the objectives. Data and skills requirement of the first regional joint assessment of the narrow-barred Spanish mackerel. The importance of the regional approach to fisheries management was recognized, initially with a particular focus on developing management procedures with regards to shrimp trawling and management plan for the narrow-barred Spanish mackerel.

Contents:-

• Opening of the meeting.
• Adoption of the Agenda and Arrangement for the meeting.
• Main outcomes of the seventh session of RECOFI and implications for the WGFM.
• Country Reporting.
• Fishery Socio-Economics: Design and implementation of A Recommendation on minimum data reporting.
• Preparatory work to the Regional Joint kingfish stock Assessment workshop.
• Progress towards A Regional Fisheries Management framework.
• Any other matters.
• Data and place of the Eighth meeting of the working group on fisheries management
• Adoption of the Report.

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 Prep/ Asmaa Ahmed

Manage/ Zeinab Osman