The mission of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of FAO is to facilitate and secure the long-term sustainable development and utilization of the world's fisheries and aquaculture. FAO is acutely aware of the fundamental social and economic role played by these two sectors in:
Meeting global and national sustainable food security.
Providing self and paid employment for fishing and aquaculture related communities as a means of alleviating poverty in these fishing communities and stemming rural/urban drift.
Former Bumble Bee CEO found guilty of tuna price-fixing scheme United States
Former Bumble Bee Foods LLC Chief Executive Officer Chris Lischewski was convicted in a price-fixing conspiracy, capping a yearslong U.S. investigation that shook the packaged seafood industry and pus...
Unión Martín acquires stake in Mauritanian fishing company Spain
Unión Martín Group, a company owned by Alantra Private Equity, a specialist in seafood products with special relevance in octopus, squid and cuttlefish, has completed the purchase of a s...
Hake fishing by industrial trawlers temporarily suspended Peru
The Ministry of Production (PRODUCE) decided to suspend the extractive activity of the hake resource (Merluccius gayi peruanus) carried out by industrial trawlers, between parallels 03 ° 30’...
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