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FAO 2020
Legal considerations in responses
FAO 2020
to COVID-19 to mitigate the risk of
The effect of COVID-19 on fisheries and disruption to fisheries and aquaculture
aquaculture in Asia – Bangkok food systems – Rome

On 10 April 2020, one month after the World Health Organization This brief identifies some of the areas that governments have
declared the spread of COVID-19 a pandemic, FAO published intervened through emergency law to strengthen a resilient
‘How is COVID-19 affecting the fisheries and aquaculture food fisheries and aquaculture food supply chains and illustrates how
systems’ (FAO, 2020a). That policy brief, while global in scope, these regulatory measures can be adopted by other countries
addressed the situation in some Asian countries. This paper thereby contribute to ensuring food security and economic
provides an update, incorporating new data, developments and development for all especially the indigenous peoples and
observations. During its writing, the pandemic was in full swing women. As such, it contributes to FAO’s Strategic Objectives on
with no clear end in sight. the eradication of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition (SO2).
Publications www.fao.org/3/ca9545en/CA9545EN.pdf www.fao.org/3/ca9421en/CA9421EN.pdf
The PDF can be accessed directly at:
The PDF can be accessed directly at:
The document card can be found here:
The document card can be found here:
www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/ca9421en
www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/ca9545en
Workshop reports

FAO 2021
Report of the Fifth Meeting of the
Technical Advisory Committee of
FAO 2021 the Central Asian and Caucasus
Regional Fisheries and Aquaculture
Impact de la crise covid-19 sur les Commission, Virtual Meeting,
secteurs de la pêche et de l’aquaculture
en Afrique du Nord – Tunis 23–24 November 2020.
пятое совещание технического
Les présentes notes stratégiques ont pour objectif d’évaluer консультативного комитета
l’impact socio-économique de la pandémie de la covid-19 sur региональной комиссии по рыбному
les secteurs de la pêche et de l’aquaculture dans quatre pays du хозяйству и аквакультуре в центральной азии и на кавказе,
Maghreb (Algérie, Maroc, Mauritanie et Tunisie) afin de proposer видеоконференцсвязь, 23-24 ноября 2020 г. – Rome
des orientations et des recommandations relatives aux mesures
d’atténuation possibles pour ces pays. Elles ont été réalisées dans The Fifth Meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) was
le cadre d’une enquête lancée par le bureau de l’Organisation des held virtually from 23rd to 24th November 2020. The meeting
Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture pour l’Afrique du was attended by participants from three of the Central Asian
Nord, de mars à août 2020. and Caucasus Regional Fisheries and Aquaculture Commission
(CACFish) member countries, namely, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan,
Impact de la crise covid-19 sur les secteurs de la pêche et de and Turkey. The following invited countries were present at
l’aquaculture en Algérie the Meeting: Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and
www.fao.org/3/cb3001fr/cb3001fr.pdf Uzbekistan. The meeting comprised 52 participants. The TAC
discussed scientific recommendations on the following issues of
Impact de la crise covid-19 sur les secteurs de la pêche et de relevance to CACFish: (i) Aquatic genetic resources; (ii) restocking
l’aquaculture en Mauritanie and culture-based fisheries; and (iii) Post-harvest market measures,
www.fao.org/3/cb2998fr/cb2998fr.pdf rules, and standards for safe, quality fish and fish products.

Impact de la crise covid-19 sur les secteurs de la pêche et de Bilingual in English and Russian.
l’aquaculture au Maroc
www.fao.org/3/cb2997fr/cb2997fr.pdf The PDF can be accessed directly at:
www.fao.org/3/cb3258b/cb3258b.pdf
Impact de la crise covid-19 sur les secteurs de la pêche et de The document card can be found here:
l’aquaculture en Tunisie www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cb3258b
www.fao.org/3/cb3174fr/cb3174fr.pdf
Impact de la crise covid-19 sur les secteurs de la pêche et de
l’aquaculture dans quatre pays du Maghreb
www.fao.org/3/cb2991fr/cb2991fr.pdf

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