UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Committee on Fisheries (COFI)

Dates:

July 8, 2024

–July 12, 2024

Location:

Rome, Italy

Description:

The 36th Session of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Committee on Fisheries (COFI 36) will convene in July 2024. The Committee on Fisheries (COFI) is a subsidiary body of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) Council and was established by the FAO Conference at its 13th session in 1965. The Committee is a global intergovernmental forum where major international fisheries and aquaculture problems and issues are examined and recommendations addressed to governments, regional fishery bodies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), fishworkers, FAO, and the international community. COFI has also been used as a forum to negotiate global agreements and non-binding instruments.

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