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The Fish for All initiative is designed to be a credible, global science and policy dialogue capable of instilling urgency into the issues at hand through the active participation of senior policy makers, opinion leaders and researchers at various levels of the community. Information dissemination will play a key role and wide ownership will be sought.

Over a 10-year period, we aim to achieve an inclusive and informed public dialogue on issues such as fish and development, fish and nutrition, health, livelihood, environment, gender, water, river basins and coasts, trade and economic growth, through the following means:

By establishing the highest profile steering committee possible to direct and connect with the highest level policy makers from various parts of the world;
Through events such as policy-science-stakeholder workshops and fora; conferences and dialogues;
Through studies, policy analyses, opinion pieces, newsletters, and a website on the issues and solutions.

Fish for All was launched at an international summit in Penang, Malaysia on 3 November 2002. It is an event that will bring together policy makers, scientists and non-governmental organizations from developing and developed countries-with a role in reversing the declines in living aquatic resources and finding ways to restore the livelihood, food and income of those who use and depend on fish.
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