ASIA-PACIFIC FISHERY COMMISSION (APFIC)

Web site: http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/faoinfo/fishery/regsubof/asiafit/aft_pg3.htm

APFIC was organized in 1948 as the Indo-Pacific Fishery Commission, an FAO regional fishery body. It has been redesignated as the Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission.

APFIC operates through subsidiary bodies including:

• a Joint Working Party on Fish Technology and Marketing
• Working Party of Experts on Inland Fisheries
• a Working Party on Aquaculture, and a
• Committee on Marine Fisheries.

In 1996, it held a Symposium on the Environmental Aspects of Responsible Fisheries.

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