Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission

Making sense of fisheries


The Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission works to improve understanding, awareness and cooperation in fisheries issues in the Asia-Pacific region. The APFIC knowledge base provides more details about the work of APFIC.

APFIC meetings

Click here for working papers and reports of APFIC Executive Committee meetings and sessions of the Commission

Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission Executive Committee (72nd Session)
23-25 Sept 2009, Seoul, Republic of Korea

APFIC Regional Consultative Workshop on "Ecosystem Approach for the management of fisheries and aquaculture in the Asia-Pacific region"
18-22 May 2009 , Colombo, Sri Lanka

APFIC Regional Consultative Workshop on"Best Practices to Supporting and Improving Livelihoods of Small-scale fisheries and aquaculture households"
13-15 October 2009, Manila, Philippines

APFIC FOCUS AREAS OF WORK

This section contains the areas of work which APFIC has been involved with since 2001. Each section contains documents, links and even presentations related to the theme. Most of the sections are based around APFIC Regional Consultative workshops and the associated background studies and country reports. There is a dedicated page of resources related to the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and a section dedicated to background information on member country policy.

RECENT FISHERY NEWS

Make sure fisheries and aquaculture are on the Climate Change agenda! (11 Jun 2009)
Don't let fish slip through the climate change net
Over 400 million of the world’s poorest depend on fish for food. How will they adapt to climate change?

Fish need to be on the agenda this December at the UN Climate Change Conference.

Check these links and send them to fisheries colleagues.

Find out what's at stake!"

Worldfish Centre work on Climate Change