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Indian Ocean Tuna Commission meets in Colombo

The 15th session of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) will be held in Colombo from March 18 to 22, preceded by the eighth session of the compliance committee which is being held from March 14 to 16.

The meeting is held in Colombo for the first time on the initiative of Fisheries and Aquatic Resource Development Minister Dr Rajitha Senaratne.

The IOTC is an intergovernmental organization established under Article 14 of the FAO constitution. It is mandated to manage tuna and tuna-like species in the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas.

The meeting will be attended by nearly 250 delegates and observers from nearly 35 countries in the Indian Ocean region and beyond.

Representatives from major distant water fishing nations such as EU, Japan, Korea, France, Taiwan, and China are also expected to attend the meeting. The commission's objective is to promote co-operation among its members to ensure through appropriate management, the conservation and optimum utilization of stocks covered by this agreement and encouraging sustainable development of fisheries based on such stocks.

Current membership of 28 includes Australia, Belize, China, Comoros, Eritrea, European Union, France, Guinea, India, Indonesia, IR Iran, Japan, Kenya, Republic of Korea, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Sultanate of Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, United Kingdom and Vanuatu.

Co-operating non-contracting parties which has on voting right includes the Maldives, Senegal, South Africa, and Uruguay.

Sri Lanka has been actively involved in the tuna resource management activities for over half a century, from the time of establishment of the Indian Ocean Fishery Commission (IOFC) for the management of Indian Ocean tuna in 1968.

Sri Lanka strengthened its involvement in tuna management and scientific data collection with the shifting of the Indo-Pacific Tuna Project (IPTP) of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) from the Philippines to Colombo in 1982.

Sri Lanka hosted the project, with the project office located in the building of the National Aquatic Resources Agency (NARA) till it was wound up in 1990.

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