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.
Fisheries management is actually working, global analysis shows United States
Nearly half of the fish caught worldwide are from stocks that are scientifically monitored and, on average, are increasing in abundance. Effective management appears to be the main reason these stocks...
IMARPE concludes fishery-biological survey of anchovy Peru
The results of the operation will allow the Ministry of Production (PRODUCE) to take measures to order the said fishing resource.
In order to determine the distribution and biological-fishery aspec...
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