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Kenya–Tanzania–Uganda: Final Act of the Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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Extract

There is a very lengthy history to the creation of the Convention for the Establishment of the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization (LVFO).

In 1971, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Council established the Committee for Inland Fisheries of Africa, with the broad mandate to assist member governments in establishing the scientific basis for regulatory and other measures for the conservation and improvement of inland fishery resources, to formulate such measures through subsidiary bodies, as required, and to make appropriate recommendations for the adoption and implementation of these measures.

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Treaties and Agreements
Information
International Legal Materials , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , May 1997 , pp. 667 - 690
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1997

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References

* Reproduced from the text provided by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The Convention for the Establishment of the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization entered into force on May 24, 1996 with the deposit of the third instrument of ratification, and the Organization was set up on December 19, 1996 when the Council of Ministers met in Kampala, Uganda. The Headquarters of the Organization is in Kampala, and the Office of the Director–General of FAO is the depositary for the Convention.

[The UN Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses, adopted by the UN General Assembly on May 21, 1997, appears at 36 I.L.M. 700 (1997); the Bangladesh-India Treaty on Sharing of the Ganges Waters at Farakka, December 12,1996, with an Introductory Note by Philippe Sands discussing both the Bangladesh-India and the India-Nepal water-sharing agreements, appears at 36 I.L.M. 519 (1997); the India- Nepal Treaty Concerning the Integrated Development of the Mahakali River, February 12, 1996, appears at 36 I.L.M. 531 (1997); and the Israel-Jordan-Palestine Liberation Organization Declaration on Water-Related Matters, February 13, 1996, appears at 36 I.L.M. 761 (1997).

[For additional information contact the Food and Agriculture Organization, Office of the Director-General, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy (tel.: 39 522 52251; fax: 39 522 53152).]