• The First "World Fisheries Cooperative Day"
  • The first World Fisheries Cooperative Day was held by International Fisheries Cooperative Organisation (ICFO) and Korea National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives (KNFC) on 16 June, 2011 with 258 participants ; ICA Director-General, ICFO representatives, minister of ministry of food, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, a national assembly member, government officials, experts of cooperative and presidents of member fisheries cooperatives in Korea, etc.
  • It became a great opportunity to strengthen and sympathize with the theme of anniversary “Sharing expertise and experience for the future fisheries” at the time of a great change in fisheries. It is expected to raise a public awareness about cooperatives with the 2012 International Year of Cooperatives declared by United Nations.
  • At the event, Mr. Uemura shoji, president Aomori Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations, was awarded the first “World Fisheries Cooperator Prize”. ICFO and KNFC established a Selection Committee for the prize.
  • ICFO and KNFC also adopted “The Fisheries Cooperators' Pledge to the Fishermen of the World” to improve the quality of fishermen's lives and to build a brighter future for fisheries worldwide.
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