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Aquaculture has become of the fastest growing segments of agriculture around the world, but until recently many people have been unaware of its existence. The practice of raising fish is centuries old with a rich history of techniques and scientific advances. The History of Aquaculture traces the development of fish farming from its ancient roots to the technologically advanced methods of today. The History of Aquaculture is a comprehensive history of captive fish production from its small s...

This document contains the report of the FAO/APFIC Workshop on Implementing the 2009 FAO Agreement on Port State Measures to Combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing (the Agreement), which was held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 23 to 27 April 2012. The workshop focused on the implementation of the Agreement from a legal and policy, institutional and capacity development, and operations stand points. Following the introduction, participants were apprised of IUU fishing characteristic...

In The Fishermen's Frontier, David Arnold examines the economic, social, cultural, and political context in which salmon have been harvested in southeast Alaska over the past 250 years. He starts with the aboriginal fishery, in which Native fishers lived in close connection with salmon ecosystems and developed rituals and lifeways that reflected their intimacy. The transformation of the salmon fishery in southeastern Alaska from an aboriginal resource to an industrial commodity has been fraught...

This book is the first on the history of the marine fisheries of Southeast Asia. It takes as its central theme the movement of fisheries into new fishing grounds, particularly the diverse ecosystems that make up the seas of Southeast Asia. This process accelerated between the 1950s and 1970s in what the author calls the great fish race. Catches soared as the population of the region grew, demand from Japan and North America for shrimps and tuna increased, and fishers adopted more efficient ways...

The regional workshop "Development of Aquaculture Insurance System for Small-scale Farmers" 20-21 September 2016, Bangkok, was joined by participants from China, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. It contains two parts. The first aimed at answering the question, "What would make insurance available for and accessible to small-scale farmers?" The second was focused on exploring potential shrimp insurance schemes. The Workshop achieved the following outcomes: (1) made farmers, farmer advisers, re...

A fishery is an area with an associated fish or aquatic population which is harvested for its value (commercial, recreational, subsistence). It can be saltwater or freshwater, wild or farmed. Examples are the salmon fishery of Alaska, the cod fishery off the Lofoten islands or the tuna fishery of the Eastern Pacific. Most fisheries are marine, rather than freshwater; most marine fisheries are based near the coast. This is not only because harvesting from relatively shallow waters is easier than...

Aquaculture now supplies half of the seafood and fisheries products consumed worldwide and is gaining international significance as a source of food and income. Future demands for seafood and fisheries products can only be met by expanded aquaculture production. Such production will likely become more intensive and will depend increasingly on nutritious and efficient aquaculture feeds containing ingredients from sustainable sources. To meet this challenge, Nutrient Requirements of Fish and Shrim...

The Reykjavik Conference on Responsible Fisheries in the Marine Ecosystem was held in Reykjavik, Iceland, from 1 to 4 October 2001. The abstracts of the papers as presented at the conference are given in this supplement to FAO Fisheries Report No. 658.

This document reviews the current scientific evidence regarding the pathogen Salmonella enterica, its occurrence and survival in aquatic environment, possible pathways of contamination of aquaculture systems, serovars found in seafood and salmonellosis associated with fish and fishery products. The experts recognised that there are a variety of pathways reported as to how Salmonella can enter the aquaculture environment ranging from wild animals, domestic stock, poor sanitation and inappropriate...

El Comite examino las cuestiones de caracter internacional asi como el programa de la FAO en materia de pesca y acuicultura y su aplicacion. Respaldo asimismo la elaboracion de directrices sobre las mejores practicas para la seguridad en el mar. Acordo, por otra parte, que debia realizarse una labor adicional con respecto a las Directrices para el ecoetiquetado de pescado y productos pesqueros de la pesca de captura continental. Publicado tambien en arabe, chino, frances, ingles y ruso."

Le bois demeure le materiau le plus courant pour la construction des bateaux de longueur inferieure a 15 m.. Dans la plupart des pays developpes ainsi que dans quelques pays en developpement, on s'est oriente vers la construction en fibre de verre, mais en Afrique, Asie et Pacifique, on estime que plus de 90 pour cent des petits bateaux de peche sont faits en bois. Le cout plus faible du bois compare a celui des autres materiaux permet d'assurer que le bois restera encore longtemps le principal...

Cette edition de La situation mondiale des peches et de l'aquaculture souligne le role vital de la peche et de l'aquaculture a la fois la securite alimentaire et la nutrition, ainsi que l'expansion economique. Le secteur reste un fournisseur important de proteines animales de haute qualite et soutient les moyens d'existence et le bien-etre de plus de dix pour cent de la population mondiale. Le commerce international de poisson a atteint de nouveaux sommets que la production globale a continue d'...

The first part of the report contains an up-to-date summary of information on the Caribbean spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) resources, its fisheries and management. After a discussion of the biology, the fisheries situation, management aspects and the benefits of regional cooperation, the Management Workshop led to a number of important recommendations and proposed actions, including the intention of signing in the future an Inter-Institutional Agreement.