Research Catalog

Title

Guidelines for the ecolabelling of fish and fishery products from marine capture fisheries = Directives pour l'étiquetage écologique du poisson et des produits des pêches de capture marines = Directrices para el ecoetiquetado de pescado y productos pesqueros de la pesca de captura marina.

Author

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Committee on Fisheries. Session (26th : 2005 : Rome, Italy)

Publication

Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005.

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Details

Description

v, 90 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

The guidelines are of a voluntary nature. They are applicable to ecolabelling schemes that are designed to certify and promote labels for products from well-managed marine capture fisheries and focus on issues related to the sustainable use of fisheries resources. The guidelines refer to principles, general considerations, terms and definitions, minimum substantive requirements and criteria, and procedural and institutional aspects of ecolabelling of fish and fishery products from marine capture fisheries.

Alternative Title

• Directives pour l'étiquetage écologique du poisson et des produits des pêches de capture marines
• Directrices para el ecoetiquetado de pescado y productos pesqueros de la pesca de captura marina
• Directives pour l'étiquetage écologique du poisson et des produits des pêches de capture marines

Subject

• Eco-labeling > Congresses
• Sustainable fisheries > Congresses
• Fishery management > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "This document contains the text of the Guidelines for the Ecolabelling of Fish and Fishery Products from Marine Capture Fisheries which were adopted by the twenty-sixty session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI), Rome, 7-11 March 2005. Some observations and reservations were made at the time of adoption of the guidelines which can be found in paragraphs 64 to 67 of the COFI report (FAO Fisheries Report No. 780)"--P. iii.
• "TC/M/A0116Tri/1/10.05/1500"--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Text in English, French, and Spanish.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Scope -- Principles -- General considerations -- Terms and definitions -- Minimum substantive requirements and criteria for ecolabels -- Procedural and institutional aspects.

ISBN

9250053703

OCLC

• 63145484
• SCSB-11804348

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library