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|  Direct payments by the fisheries sector for management services in a few developed countries has led to closer scrutiny of the services offered by fisheries authorities, with a view to reducing them to those that are considered to properly be within the public domain, such as MCS and quality control. The fisheries administrations of many of the poorest developing countries are not able to execute effectively the tasks they were established to undertake because they do not have the means to do so. The development and maintenance of skill levels of personnel in fisheries administrations through training is an essential element in achieving sustainable fisheries development.International co-operation in the standardization of statistical data centers on a body known as the Co-ordinating Working Party on Fisheries Statistics (CWP) , for which the Food and Agriculture Organization provides the secretariat. The CWP has evolved from its origins as the "Continuing Working Party" of a meeting of experts on fisheries statistics in 1959, called by various international organisations to co-ordinate the collection of fishery statistics for the North Atlantic and to establish common definitions and classifications. | | |  Since then the CWP has extended its area of interest to cover marine fisheries globally and its membership has been extended to reflect this. It retains much of its original purpose, as it seeks to keep under continuous review the requirements for fishery statistics for research, policy-making and management. It agrees to standard concepts, definitions, classifications and methodologies for the collection and collation of fishery statistics, and makes proposals for the co-ordination of statistical activities amongst relevant intergovernmental organizations. | | | | The FAO uses the FISHSTAT reporting system to collate global statistics on catch and production from more than 220 countries and for over 1000 species of aquatic organisms considered to be of significant commercial importance. The FAO has developed an Internet-based Fisheries Global Information System (FIGIS) , through which access to all FAO fishery statistics will become possible. Data is intended to provide management with a reliable basis for the interlinked management domains of policy, planning and implementation. It is necessary, therefore, to consider the full range of data requirements for an information system from which the three interlinked domains can draw. This suggests the need to extend data collection for the purpose of also providing economic, financial and socio-cultural information. | | | | |
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