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The Working Party finalized a review of chlorinated hydrocarbon substances in the African aquatic environment; the review is annexed to this report. The Working Group concluded that it had achieved its major goal to evaluate the state of the African aquatic environment and to review major groups of pollutants that could have negative impacts on aquatic life and fishery resources, i.e. organic matter, metals and organochlorine substances. Future studies could concentrate on phosphorus loads causing eutrophication and on the state of specific types of water bodies in Africa. The Working Party discussed its potential role in the preparations for the CIFA Seminar on African inland fisheries, aquaculture and the environment, scheduled for December 1994, and made suggestions for major inputs it could provide to the seminar.
The Working Party reviewed reports on the state of pollution of African Inland waters and existing pollution monitoring and research programs, and made proposals for the preparation of study papers, for research projects on biological and chemical monitoring of water contaminants and on comparative toxicity of pollutants to African freshwater fish. It further proposed a sub-regional project on pollution in Lake Tanganyika and a seminar on aquatic pollution management. A paper on scientific bases for pollution control in African Inland waters, finalized by the Working Party, is annexed to this report.
The session agreed on a vision statement and on a characterization of small-scale fisheries as well as on a research agenda of five main themes. It elaborated preliminary drafts of two separate technical documents on the contribution, role and importance of small-scale fisheries and research agenda for small-scale fisheries and requested that the documents be submitted, after finalization by the Secretariat, to the ACFR at its next session