FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(FAO) is the lead United Nations agency for agriculture,
forestry, fisheries and rural development.
An intergovernmental organization, FAO has 183 member countries
plus one member organization, the European Community. FAO
plays an important role in the Regional Seas Programme.
FAO is an observer in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, the
MAP and the Antarctic region. The Commission on the Conservation
of Antarctic
Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) is one of the regional
fisheries bodies that interacts with the FAO directly on
issues such as IUU (illegal, unregulated and unreported)
fishing and incident mortally of seabirds during longline
fishing. FAO collaborates with the MAP in the framework
of the SAP-BIO project on the interaction of fisheries and
marine ecosystems.
FAO also cooperates in the Mediterranean region on issues
in relation to responsible fishing through the General Fisheries
Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM); agricultural issues
through the Blue Plan Regional Activity Centre; and soil
erosion issues through the Priority Actions Programme Regional
Activity Centre.
With regional offices in Africa, Asia, the Near East,
and Latin America and the Caribbean, FAO also works with
UNEP in several Regional Seas including the Red Sea and
Gulf of Aden, and South-East Pacific.
FAO recently produced with UNEP a report
on Ecosystem-based management of fisheries (FAO website).
Visit the main FAO website
as well as FAO
Fisheries
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