The Food and Agriculture Organisation
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is the United Nations agency that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. The Committee of Fisheries (COFI), a subsidiary body of the FAO Council, is the only global inter-governmental forum for international fisheries and aquaculture issues. Seas At Risk used its Observer seat for the first time at the 2007 COFI meeting.
COFI meets every two years, bringing together senior government officials from over 100 countries with an interest in fisheries. COFI makes recommendations for concerted action by individual countries, regional fisheries bodies, the FAO, and civil society, and negotiates global agreements and non-binding instruments. Of these perhaps the best known are the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, which includes guidelines for conducting sustainable fisheries, and the International Plans of Action.
At the start of each COFI meeting, the FAO releases the "State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture" (SOFIA) report with an overview of trends and developments on fisheries and aquaculture.
For the web site of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department
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For the 2006 FAO "State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture" (SOFIA) Report
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27th meeting of FAO's Committee on Fisheries (COFI), Rome 5-9/3/2007
Joint Seas At Risk and DSCC paper for COFI 2007 (5/3/07).
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Seas At Risk intervention at COFI 2007 on the ecosystem approach to fisheries and deep water fisheries (5/3/07).
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Report of the twenty-seventh session of the Committee on Fisheries (9/3/07).
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