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What is SIOFA?

SIOFA provides a regional framework for the management of specific fisheries resources in the southern Indian Ocean. It was signed in Rome on 7 July 2006 and entered into force in June 2012. To date, SIOFA has ten contracting parties including Australia, China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Spain and France and India.