The Future for Fisheries

Fisheries and Aquaculture in the Modern World, 2016

He is now retired after 22 years of service in the UN/ FAO as the Resident Representative in Africa and South America. He is still a part-time adjunct professor in the Eastern Finland University and a visiting professor in the Kazakh National Agrarian University in Almaty where he is teaching aquaculture and fisheries to undergraduate and master-level students. He has lifelong experience in all aspects of aquaculture and fisheries development, including project identification, design and management, fish production, processing and marketing, and selection of species for aquaculture. Last five years, he has concentrated in biodiversity-friendly fisheries management, which takes account of the livelihood of local communities as well as promotion of climate sustainability. Till date he has workwise visited 130 countries and published some 250 fisheries and aquaculture-related papers from all continents of the world. With Dr. Ahmed Khan, he has published a book on Sustainable Ocean Development in 2002.

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2009

InTech Open Science/Open minds, 2016

This book has 9 chapters covering many aspects of the global fisheries including multigear fishery tax management, Pan-Arctic Fisheries, trawl selectivity, oil and gas platforms vs. fish and fisheries, Brown seaweed fishery, Blue Swimming crap fishery, SUISAN fisheries education in Japan, and Carangids taxonomy in Pakistan. Only one aquaculture chapter remained in the final book describing how to use orange and potato peels to prepare fish feed.

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Fishers' Knowledge in Fisheries Science and …, 2007

Great complaints are made against the use of the net called 'wondyrchoun' [beam trawl] which drags from the bottom of the sea all the bait that used to be the food of great fish… …[it] runs so heavily and hardly over the ground when fishing that it destroys the flowers of the land below the water and also the spat of oysters, mussels, and other fish upon which the great fish are nourished. .. …Through means of this instrument fishermen catch `such great plenty of small fish that they do not know what to do with them, but fatten their pigs with them'. UK Rolls of Parliament (1376/77) Today, 99% of the world's 51 million fishers are small-scale, producing over half of the global foodfish catch of 98 million tones. One billion people rely on aquatic resources as their main source of dietary protein (Berkes et al. 2001 and references therein). Globally, many fish stocks are depleted. Overall, our capacity to harvest fish continues to outpace our capacity to monitor the effects of fishing, let alone design, implement and enforce effective conservation measures. Fish populations once deemed inexhaustible (Huxley 1883), have been reduced to a fraction of their past abundance (Hilborn et al. 2003). High-level predators in the North Atlantic hover round 10% of their 1900 levels (Christensen et al. 2003; Myers and Worm 2003). Some sharks have suffered declines of over 50% since the mid 1980s (Schindler et al. 2003; Baum et al. 2002). Other species as diverse as marine turtles (Hays et al. 2003) and many species of whales hover at very low levels (Roman and Palumbi 2003). In too many cases, stocks are so depleted that conserving what is left would amount to sharing the present misery (Pitcher 2001). In these cases, the only meaningful option is recovery but we generally know even less about recovery than we do about conservation. 'Fisheries science' and 'management', as currently practiced, are relatively new phenomena. However, knowledge about marine and freshwater ecosystems and social institutions mediating human relationships with those ecosystems is ancient, being a necessity of survival as well as the product of natural human interest in the surrounding world. Together, these have led, throughout the world, to acute observation, experimentation, the formulation and testing of hypotheses, and the development of theories and practices as well as social institutions to regulate resource use and transmit knowledge from generation to generation (Berkes 1999). This book has brought together many case studies from different parts of the world where the knowledge of fishers, their institutions and often the fishers themselves is being actively integrated into fisheries science and management. The chapters represent different points on a number of continua; between contexts where mutual respect, cooperation and reciprocity (Stanley and Rice this vol.) are just evolving and those where formal co-management arrangements operate (Baird and other this vol.); between Indigenous management, state management, and state

FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical …, 2009

With around three quarters of the world's capture fisheries fully or overexploited, aquaculture is seen as the main source for future growth of fish production. Given this finite state of affairs, this paper examines the role of "feed" fisheries in fish and animal farming and ...

Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2003

The total world catch from marine and freshwater wild stocks has peaked and may be slightly declining. There appear to be few significant resources to be developed, and the majority of the world's fish stocks are intensively exploited. Many marine ecosystems have been profoundly changed by fishing and other human activities. Although most of the world's major fisheries continue to produce substantial sustainable yield, a number have been severely overfished, and many more stocks appear to be heading toward depletion. The world's fisheries continue to be heavily subsidized, which encourages overfishing and provides society with a small fraction of the potential economic benefits. In most of the world's fisheries there is a “race for fish” in which boats compete to catch the fish before a quota is achieved or the fish are caught by someone else. The race for fish leads to economic inefficiency, poor quality product, and pressure to extract every fish for short-term gai...