Report of the Twenty-fourthmeeting of the Advisory Committee - BOBP/REP/83

Report of the Twenty-fourthmeeting of the Advisory Committee - BOBP/REP/83

Descripción

This report documents the discussions and recommendations of the 24th Meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Bay of Bengal Programme (BOBP). The meeting was held from 13 to 16 October, 1999, in Phuket, Thailand. The report contains a “State of the Programme” that reviews the Programme’s work during its Third Phase (1995-1999). It also contains a Progress Report, including Project Factsheets that chronicle activities carried out in each country, year by year, under the Coastal Fisheries Ma nagement Project of the BOBP. The report includes as annex a list of Problems and Concerns relating to Coastal and Marine Fisheries Development and Management in the Bay of Bengal region, and reproduces the Phuket Resolution, which urged the establishment of an inter-governmental organization in the Bay of Bengal region. An Annexure to the report summarizes the findings of the two-member Mission on the Documentation of Leamings from the Third Phase, and reproduces two articles that ana lyse the future of the Programme after 1999.