Chennai, Feb. 27 -- Fisheries governance across the Bay of Bengal (BOB) region, including India, is set for a major and positive transformation, with countries committing to develop nationally owned National Plans of Action for the small-scale fisheries sector.
At a crucial 4-day global meeting of the Sub-Committee on Fisheries Management (COFI-FM) held by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) which at Reykjavik in Iceland on Friday, the BOB Programme Inter-Governmental Organisation (BOBP-IGO) presented a roadmap and proposed FAO-regional collaboration to transform the fisheries governance in the BOB countries in a way that supports small-scale fisheries across India, Bangladesh, Maldives and Sri Lanka.
With India home to over ...