The African workshop was one of three regional consultative workshops carried out as a follow-up to the 2009 inception workshop of the FAO Extra-Budgetary Programme on Fisheries and Aquaculture for Poverty Alleviation and Food Security. The workshops built on the outcomes of the Global Conference on Small-Scale Fisheries held in Bangkok in October 2008 and referred to the recommendations made by the 26th Session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) in March 2009 with regard to the potential development of an international instrument and programme for small-scale fisheries. The purpose of the workshops was to provide guidance on the scope and contents of such an international small-scale fisheries instrument and on the possible priorities and implementation modalities for a global assistance programme. L'atelier africain etait un des trois ateliers consultatifs regionaux faisant suite a l'atelier initial du programme extrabudgetaire sur les peches et l'aquaculture de la FAO pour la reduction de la pauvrete et la securite alimentaire, en 2009. Le but des ateliers etait de fournir des conseils sur la portee et la nature d'un tel instrument international pour le developpement durable des peches artisanales, et sur les eventuelles priorites et modalites de mise en oeuvre d'un programme d'assistance global. Il a gravite autour des presentations plenieres portant sur les principaux themes et les discussions des groupes de travail. L'atelier est convenu qu'un instrument international sur les peches artisanales et un programme apparente seraient des outils importants pour assurer leur durabilite."

This document contains the report of the Sixth Meeting of the Regional Commission for Fisheries (RECOFI) Working Group on Fisheries Management (WGFM), which was held on Doha, the State of Qatar from 5 to 8 November 2012. The WGFM addressed and made decisions on matters concerning relevant follow-up to fifth meeting of the RECOFI WGFM and to the sixth session of RECOFI. The status of the implementation of the fisheries management recommendation on minimum data reporting in recommendation RECOFI 6/2011/1 that entered into force on 1 January 2012 was discussed. The report on the RECOFI Workshop on Social and Economic Aspects of Fisheries in the RECOFI Region as well as the progress on the work of the Task Group for this activity was presented and discussed.