Fisheries Development Branch

Atlantic Fisheries Development Branch

Latin American Fisheries Development Organisation | Latin American Organisation for Fisheries Development | OLDEPESCA [Abbr.]

Directorate-General B - Agriculture and Fisheries | Directorate-General B - Agriculture, Fisheries, Social Affairs and Health | Directorate-General for Agriculture and Fisheries

World Conference on fisheries management and development | World Fisheries Conference

Canada-Newfoundland Inshore Fisheries Development Agreement [ Canada-Newfoundland Inshore Fisheries Subsidiary Agreement ]

Production managers in agriculture, forestry and fisheries

Research and development managers

Cambodia did not sign or ratify any of the international agreements governing fisheries, inter alia, the Unclos, the UNFSA, the FAO Compliance Agreement, but it has ratified the 1958 Geneva Convention on the High Seas (22) and acceded to the 1958 Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone (23) and it has accepted the Regional Plan of Action to promote responsible fishing practices including combating IUU fishing in the Asia-Pacific Fisheries Committee (APFIC) (APFIC RPOA) (24), as well as the Regional Guidelines for res ...[+++]ponsible fishing operations in Southeast Asia (RGRFO-SEA) (25) issued by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (Seafdec) (26).

5. Notes that in many developing countries fisheries, particularly small-scale fishing, and related industries play a vital role in ensuring food security, creating jobs, generating government revenues and exports and maintaining local communities; considers it essential that the interests of the local population and their sovereign rights over natural resources are taken into account; is concerned that illegal fishing can contribute to migration and seriously undermine sustainable development; emphasises therefore the fact that EU ...[+++] fisheries agreements with developing countries help foster domestic fishing industries, (focusing in particular on small and medium-sized fishing operators and firms), monitor fish stocks, combat overfishing and illegal fishing, protect biodiversity and support and foster improvements in hygiene and health standards;

Audits on the use of Structural Funds are carried out both by national authorities and by the competent services of the Commission dealing with Structural Funds (Directorate-General for Regional Policy, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development and Directorate-General for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs).

10. Considers that, if sustainably managed and more closely integrated with national economic life, the fisheries sector could provide the key to successful poverty eradication in Mauritania where more than 50% of the population live below the poverty line. Thanks to recent social reforms, those who gained employment in the fisheries sector since 1985 have been drawn mainly from the poorest segments of Mauritanian society. Ways should be explored to reconcile access for third country vessels with the maintenance (octopus fishery) or progressive development (hake fishery, etc) of a national capacity to catch and process national fisheries ...[+++] resources. The development of value-added fish processing activities, with very real benefits to the Mauritanian economy would be the objective, a question that should be taken into consideration in the context of the EDF programming (NIP);