Vientiane, 17 June 2009 - The Government of Lao PDR is currently developing a comprehensive legislation for fisheries and aquaculture. In support of this, FAO, in collaboration with four international technical organizations have developed a Legislative Review of Fisheries and Aquaculture in the Lao PDR, which is now available online.

The Government of Lao PDR recognized the need for a national legal framework to be developed to enable the effective management of fisheries and aquaculture and requested the Department of Livestock and Fisheries to undertake this task. The output of this process has been the development of a draft framework for fisheries and aquaculture for further development into national legislation.

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The review can be found here.