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Topics discussed at the meeting, held in Togo in February 2004, include: reports of the three working groups on artisanal fisheries, demersal species and small pelagics; fisheries management issues in the Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic region; the position regarding fisheries data in the region; the status of fish stocks in the high seas area of the Eastern Central Atlantic ocean and the legal and institutional arrangements for the region.