Seminar: 20 years anniversary of Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and Aquaculture

Time/Venue: Wednesday 19th August 2015 at 10:00 – 12:30, Meeting Room A4

The United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation’s Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries is an internationally agreed set of global principles and standards of behaviour to guide responsible fisheries practices.

First steps towards the Code were in 1991 when the UN’s Committee on Fisheries called for the development of new concepts to lead to responsible, sustained fisheries. The Code was developed and then unanimously adopted in 1995 by the FAO Conference. Thus we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Code of Conduct this year, and mark the occasion by organizing a short seminar on the subject and especially on those aspects that relate to aquaculture.

For more information click on this link to the FAO Code of Conduct.

This seminar is organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, and the Nor-Fishing Foundation.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

10:00 – 10:10 Welcome, by Mrs. Liv Holmefjord, Director of Fisheries and Chairman the Nor-Fishing Foundation

10:10 – 10:30 The Code of Conduct and aquaculture, by Mr. Arni Mathiesen, FAO Assistant
Director General for Fisheries and Aquaculture

10:30 – 12:20 Presentations by:

H.E. Elisabeth Aspaker, Minister of Fisheries, Norway

H.E. Helder Barbalho, Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Brazil

H.E. José Miguel Burgos, Director del Servicio Nacional de Pesca, Chile

H.E. Ashok Kumar Angurana, Secretary (ADF), Ministry of Agriculture, India

H.E. Susi Pudjiastuti, Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Indonesia

H.E. Paseka Masemula, Director of Aquaculture Development, South Africa

H.E. Mariam Mohammed Saeed Hareb, Acting Assistant Undersecretary of Water

Resources and Conservation, United Arab Emirates

12:20 – 12:30 Summing up, by Arni Mathiesen/Elisabeth Aspaker