Report of the Eighth Meeting of the RECOFI Working Group on Aquaculture, Kuwait City, State of Kuwait, 17-19 April 2018
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The eighth meeting of the Working Group on Aquaculture (WGA) of the Regional Commission for Fisheries (RECOFI) was held in Kuwait City, State of Kuwait, from 17 to 19 April 2018 and was attended by the representatives from six Member countries. The WGA reviewed the outcome and recommendations of the eighth session of the Commission, ninth session of COFI Sub-Committee on Aquaculture; and thirty-third session of the FAO Regional Conference for the Near East. The WGA noted that a major intersessional activity was the Regional Workshop on Building National Capacity for Cultured Animal Disease Diagnostic in Relation to Bio-Security. It was highlighted that the workshop, which was originally scheduled to be held in Saudi Arabia, was held in Cairo, Egypt, from 6 to 8 March 2018, for organizational reasons. A brief status review of aquaculture developments in participating member countries was done. Among the main priorities identified for the region, the WGA agreed on the importance of: (i) sharing work experiences on aquaculture spatial planning and discuss criteria and indicators to be used for fish cage culture site selection; (ii) adopting the proposed FAO-FIAS roadmap for the implementation of RECOFI recommendations on minimum data reporting on aquaculture; and (iii) revising and update the contents of the Regional Aquaculture Information System (RAIS). The WGA agreed on a programme of work for the intersessional period 2018-2020