ABSTRACT
This issue of FAN contains an editorial on Opportunities for aquaculture development in drylands, and four main sections on:

1. Global aquaculture updates with an article from statistician's desk providing an Overview of recently published global aquaculture statistics; one article from the fish health specialist's desk on FAO efforts to build capacity in dealing with Tilapia Lake Virus; one article providing information on the Thirty-third Session of Committee on Fisheries (COFI); one contribution on a special workshop on Advancing integrated agriculture-aquaculture through agroecology and one on FAO presence at AQUA 2018 Conference in Montpellier.
2. Aquaculture updates by region offers information on ongoing projects, activities and events by region particularly: three articles for Asia-Pacific; four articles for Europe; three articles for the Near East and North Africa; one articles for Latin America and the Caribbean; five articles for Sub-Saharan Africa.
3. There are three thematic articles on the following subjects:
   1. World aquaculture - the next 20 years;
   2. Preparation of the States of the Word Report on Aquatic Genetic Resources;
   3. Lessons to be learned from aquaculture development in China.
4. Miscellaneous section contains three contributions with the following titles:
   1. Conservation and Management of Aquatic Genetic Resources: technical exchange visit between Zambia and Hungary; and
   2. Approaching fifty years of the Aquatic science and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA);
   3. Aquaculture production and marketing in the Roman empire. The three last sections focus on new staff profiles in the FAO Aquaculture Branch, new FAO aquaculture publications and Calendar of events.

PDF: http://www.fao.org/3/CA2325EN/ca2325en.pdf

Information: V. Crespi

Table of materials and presentations

23-24 October 2018, Nairobi, Kenya: Participants to the Project Inception Workshop of GCP/RAF/510/MUL: Enhancing capacity/risk reduction of emerging Tilapia Lake Virus (TiLV) to African tilapia aquaculture, consisting of about 34 four delegates representing Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda; government, academe and producer sector representatives from Kenya; officials of FAOR and FAOHQ and TiLV experts and aquatic animal health specialists.

Some 34 delegates from Angola, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda; delegates and officials of Kenya's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigation, academe and producer sector representatives; officials of FAOR and FAOHQ and experts actively participated during the Project Inception Workshop (PIW) of GCP/RAF/510/MUL: Enhancing capacity/risk reduction of emerging Tilapia Lake Virus (TiLV) to African tilapia aquaculture funded by the Africa Solidarity Trust Fund.

Tilapias are the second-most important farmed finfish worldwide, with Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), as the 6th among the top cultured species. Given the importance of farmed/wild-caught tilapia, especially as a widespread source of low-cost protein and micronutrients, its affordability, TiLV represents a potential threat to food security.

Ms Susan Imende, Ag. Director General, Kenya Fisheries Service, emphasized the need to urgently tackle the threat of TiLV since it is in the African continent already and can pose a serious pathogen risk to wild tilapia populations of African lakes and rivers.

"We are aware that the disease can cause high mortalities and since there is neither cure nor vaccine yet, it can cause a lot of socio-economic upheaval among the small-scale fish farmers who are the majority in our Countries" (Ms Susan Imende).

She concluded her remarks with a note on the need to create awareness, create strong monitoring and surveillance systems as a continent, build capacity for diagnosis and more research for better understanding in order to develop an affordable vaccine and diversification of culture species. She declared open the PIW with a final remark "We must work together and not in isolation".

The PIW introduced the backgrounder, objectives, scope, components and outputs, discussed project implementation mechanisms; identified potential bottlenecks and/or risk in project implementation & recommended ways in advance to avoid such risks.

Participants' knowledge of TiLV was enhanced on its emergence and current distribution, pathology and diagnostics, prevention, risks and risk management, aquatic animal disease surveillance and requirements. The participants also learned some aspects of socio-economic impact assessment methods and the FAO Emergency Management Tools.
By the end of the PIW, country delegates presented a detailed implementation plan including requirements, components, time-line, risks and responsibilities.

A 10-day intensive Training Course on TiLV is scheduled to be held from 4-13 December in Kisumu, Kenya in collaboration with the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute and the Kenya Fisheries Service.

More information: Melba.Reantaso@fao.org

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We are pleased to announce the release of updated statistics on global fisheries commodities production and trade and regional capture fisheries production up to 2016. These data are now available through query panels and the following workspaces in FishStatJ

Global commodities workspace:

• Fisheries Commodities Production and Trade 1976-2016

Regional workspace:

• CECAF (Eastern Central Atlantic) capture production 1970-2016
• GFCM (Mediterranean and Black Sea) capture production 1970-2016
• RECOFI capture production 1986-2016
• Southeast Atlantic Capture Production 1975-2016

At its thirty-second session, in July 2016, the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) underlined the importance of trade in fisheries services and welcomed the work of the FAO on conducting a literature review on the subject. In September 2017, during its sixteenth session, the FAO Sub-Committee on Fish Trade (COFI:FT) was invited to note the literature review and to make recommendations for future work on the topic. On this occasion, the Sub-Committee agreed to hold an expert consultation on trade in fisheries services that would allow a more detailed analysis, within a clear scope. This report is the result of the first Expert Consultation on Trade in Fisheries Services. The Expert Consultation was convened by FAO with the financial support of the Government of Sweden, in Gothenburg, Sweden, from 20 to 22 March 2018. The Expert Consultation was tasked to deliberate in a definition on trade in fisheries services, possible classification and methodologies for assessing its extension and impact. In addition, the Expert Consultation also suggested follow-up developments by FAO to enhance the work of the Organization.

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