This report presents the results from a study commissionned by DG MARE of the European Commission. It is intended to make a contribution to understanding local processes of development and diversification and the role of fisheries in coastal communities through the collection of primary data at the local level. The study focuses on selected locations within four fisheries-dependent maritime regions of the EU: Galicia (Spain), Sicily (Italy), Brittany (France) and Shetland (UK).

 

 

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More than 60 experts, professionals and stakeholders in the aquaculture field just gathered in Izmir, Turkey, to discuss about the future of aquaculture in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. On this occasion, the new GFCM Aquaculture Multi-Stakeholder Platform (AMShP) was launched.

In the Near East and North Africa region, the importance of addressing food security not only through increasing production but in reducing waste and losses and increasing efficiency of processing and marketing has become critical throughout the agricultural sector. In particular for fisheries, the combination of overfishing, projected climate change impacts, and pollution create an uncertain future for the production of fish in the region. This becomes increasingly critical when considering the growing demand for fish in the region.

The fisheries sector in the region encompasses a number of unique challenges with regards to food losses and waste, and require a particular consideration. In an effort to address these issues, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO), in partnership with the Mauritanian Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Economy and the Center for Marketing Information and Advisory Services for Fishery Products in the Arab Region (Infosamak) will be holding the “Regional conference on food security and income generation through reduction of losses and waste in fisheries”, 15-17 December 2013 in Nouakchott, Mauritania.

In particular, the Conference will consider case studies from the region as well as a number of technical topics including; best practices for minimising fish postharvest losses and waste; use of fishery by-products and coproducts for minimising waste, and fishery value chain based approach; sustainable management of fish bycatch and discards. The overall objectives of the conference will be to review the current situation and identify policy level and operational level interventions to improve food security and income generation through reduction of losses and waste in fisheries in Near East and North Africa region.

Philippine fishers face immense damage to the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in regions affected by Typhoon Haiyan, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said today, calling for prompt and sustainable actions to help rebuild livelihoods.

The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department has just released Guidelines for the fisheries and aquaculture sector on damage and needs assessments in emergencies providing advice and a structure for assessing the requirements of relief and rehabilitation following an emergency.
The Guidelines are aimed at those people who participate in post-disaster needs assessment at the country level. They are already being used to help determine the damage and losses following Typhoon Haiyan which hit the Philiippines last month.