Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics (CWP)
MissionThe Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics (CWP) provides a mechanism to coordinate fishery statistical programmes of regional fishery bodies and other inter-governmental organizations with a remit for fishery statistics.Main functionFunctional since 1960, the CWP's purpose is to:
- continually review fishery statistics requirements for research, policy-making and management;
- agree on standard concepts, definitions, classifications and methodologies for the collection and collation of fishery statistics;
- make proposals for the coordination and streamlining of statistical activities among relevant intergovernmental organizations.
There are currently 19 participating organizations in the CWP:
- Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
- Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM)
- Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC)
- Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)
- International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT)
- International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
- International Whaling Commission (IWC)
- North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO)
- North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC)
- Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA)
- Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO)
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
- South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO)
- Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
- Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC)
- Statistical Office of the European Commission (Commission of the EU/Eurostat)
- Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)
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The CWP meets in full session approximately every two years and carries out intersessional and ad hoc meetings as required. Geographical CoverageAlthough first mandated to cover North Atlantic fisheries, since 1995 the CWP has extended its remit to all marine water bodies. LanguagesEnglish. Bibliography
FAO . “The Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics: Its Origin, Role and Structure” . FAO Fisheries Circular No.903. Rome, December 1995 .
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