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| Providing States recognize the long-term advantages of co-operation in the management of fisheries resources and commit themselves to the implementation of the measures that are provided for in the 1995 UN Fish Stocks Agreement, the 1993 Compliance Agreement and the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, it should be possible to achieve vastly improved management of high seas fisheries on the basis of agreements already made.Introduction |
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| International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) |
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| International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) |
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| International Whaling Commission (IWC) |
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| North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO) |
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| Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) |
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| Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) |
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| Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) |
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| Statistical Office of the European Communities (Commission of the EU/Eurostat) |
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| The FAO serves as the CWP Secretariat. |
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| The Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics (CWP) provides a mechanism to coordinate fishery statistical programmes of regional fishery bodies and other inter-governmental organizations with a remit for fishery statistics. Functional since 1960, the CWP's purpose is to (i) keep under continuous review the requirements for fishery statistics for research, policy-making and management; (ii) agree standard concepts, definitions, classifications and methodologies for the collection and collation of fishery statistics; and (iii) make proposals for the coordination and streamlining of statistical activities among relevant intergovernmental organizations. |
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| The CWP has strongly facilitated improved data collection through standardized statistical reporting systems and is now looking ahead to efficiently coordinate and exchange this data with participating organizations. |
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| Although first mandated to cover North Atlantic fisheries, since 1995 the CWP has extended its remit to all marine water bodies. |
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| As of January 2001, there were 13 participating organizations in the CWP: |
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| Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) |
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| Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) |
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| Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) |
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| Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) |
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