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IPFC Working Party of Experts on Inland Fisheries

(1)

Establishment

Seventeenth Session of IPFC, 1-5 November 1976, Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Proc.Seventeenth Session IPFC, Section I, para. 46)

(ii)

Sessions

(iii)

(iv)

First Session: 17-19 January 1978, Bangkok, Thailand

Second Session: 23-27 January 1984, New Delhi, India

Third Session: 19-27 June 1986, Bangkok, Thailand

Fourth Session: 8-14 September 1988, Kathmandu, Nepal

Eligibility for membership

Experts (individuals serving in personal capacity) nominated by the Director-General

1986-88 Australia, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal,

Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand

Terms of reference

(As agreed by the Commission at its Nineteenth Session (Tokyo, Japan, 1980))

With regard to the capture of fisheries in inland and enclosed coastal waters, the Working Party shall:

(a) report on the status of the resources in the IPFC region and identify needs for international action leading to their better development and management;

(b) formulate and encourage lines of approach to common research

programmes on fishery biology, ecology and environment, to lead to better development, management and conservation of the resources; and

(c) identify problems of statistics, technology, aquaculture and

related aspects, liaising with other appropriate working parties of SCORRAD, in deciding upon the best means of accomplishing work in these fields.

For the purpose of this Working Party, enclosed coastal waters shall be lagoons, estuaries and mangrove areas.

(v)

Chairman

(vi)

1988 Thiraphan Bhukaswan (Thailand)

Secretaries

T.O. Petr, FIRI

H. Naeve (Environment), FIRI

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