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title: "2006 News Archive"
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# 2006 News Archive

## New Fishing Agreement - SIOFA

**Faced with a marked increase in fishing on the high seas, six countries have signed a new fisheries agreement covering a vast region of the southern Indian Ocean. The Comoros, France, Kenya, Mozambique, New Zealand and Seychelles and the European Community signed the South Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA), following talks at the Rome headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in early July 2006. It is hoped that other countries will soon join the Agreement, which will enter into force once FAO, its legal depositary, receives the fourth instrument of ratification, including at least two from coastal states. The signing ceremony followed a series of intergovernmental consultations which were attended by many of the coastal states surrounding the southern Indian Ocean. Two signatories of SIOFA, France and New Zealand, are Parties to the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels. Two other ACAP Parties that have attended SIOFA consultations are Australia and South Africa.**


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## Peru and France join ACAP

**Peru and France have become the seventh and eighth nations, respectively, to accede to the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels.**


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## Conservation Status for Southern Giant Petrel

**THE ANTARCTIC TREATY CONSULTATIVE MEETINGS CONTINUE TO CONSIDER SPECIALLY PROTECTED SPECIES STATUS FOR THE SOUTHERN GIANT PETREL**


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## Rehabilitation of Wandering Albatross

### A WANDERING ALBATROSS GETS A SECOND CHANCE


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