Committee on Fisheries (COFI), 31st Session

9 June 2014, Rome, Italy - COFI 31 - Committee on Fisheries - 31st Session. FAO headquarters (Plenary Hall).

The Committee on Fisheries (COFI), a subsidiary body of the FAO Council, was established by the FAO Conference at its Thirteenth Session in 1965.

The Committee presently constitutes the only global inter-governmental forum where major international fisheries and aquaculture problems and issues are examined and recommendations addressed to governments, regional fishery bodies, NGOs, fishworkers, FAO and international community, periodically on a world-wide basis.

COFI has also been used as a forum in which global agreements and non-binding instruments were negotiated.

For more information: www.fao.org/cofi/en/