Report of the Sixteenth Session of the Coordinating Working Party on Atlantic Fishery Statistics

Download or read book Report of the Sixteenth Session of the Coordinating Working Party on Atlantic Fishery Statistics written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Coordinating Working Party on Atlantic Fishery Statistics and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three major topics were considered. The first concerned the future role of the CWP following its reconstitution and the adoption of new statutes and rules of procedure. The second major topic concerned international initiatives of relevance to the CWP. The third major topic concerned the improvement of the reliability of fishery statistics, including consideration of the consequences and extent of the problem of non-reporting and mis-reporting. Other topics considered included a review of recommendations from the Fifteenth Session of CWP; modifications to programmes in relation to fishery statistics; exchange of national fishery statistics on electronic media; modifications to STATLANT questionnaires; discrepencies among agency databases; bycatch and discard data; recreational and subsistence fishery statistics; fleet statistics; aquaculture statistics; conversion factors; country and nationality issues, and economic statistics.