And because quite a number of people are involved in several RFMOs, this can lead to availability problems.

Of course, each RFMO offers a meeting calendar on their website, but then going through each website every time can be a strenuous task.

Hence the idea of having one central place that would gather the meetings schedules of all the majors RFMOs, as well as those of FAO's Fisheries Department, so as to ease the process.

 And from that idea, we created fishnews.

Our aim with fishnews is to keep a list of all the RFMO's meetings (possibly extending the coverage to NGOs, National Institutions...) that would be updated at least on a weekly basis, so that people can go to the fishnews website and get the latest meeting schedules.

To maintain our centralized schedule, we gather the information from the various RFMOs websites and store it in our central meeting calendar.

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