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The Report of the Expert Consultation on Best Practice Technical Guidelines for IPOA/NPOA-Seabirds, held in Bergen, Norway in September 2008 has now been published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
The abstract of the expert consultation’s report may be read at: http://www.fao.org/fi/oldsite/eims_search/1_dett.asp?calling=simple_s_result&lang=en&pub_id=251169. Note that a downloadable PDF of the whole report is not currently available on the FAO web site.
The report of the Expert Consultation will be made available to the 28th Session (click here) of the FAO's Committee on Fisheries (COFI), to be held in Rome, Italy over 2-6 March 2009.
Reference:
FAO 2008. Report of the Expert Consultation on Best Practice Technical Guidelines for IPOA/NPOA–Seabirds. Bergen Norway, 2–5 September 2008. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report. No. 880. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 37 pp. ISBN 978-92-5-106124-4.
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Posted by John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 12 January 2009, updated 9 February 2009