A meeting for the initiative to create an Aquaculture Network of the Americas or Red de Acuicultura de las Americas was held in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 10-12 June 2009. The meeting was held in response to the request made by delegates of countries of the Americas that attended the IV Session of the Sub-committee of Aquaculture of the Committee on Fisheries of FAO in Puerto Varas, Chile in October last year. Delegates representing 13 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Costa-Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, USA) and two aquaculture-related intergovernmental organisations attended.
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