World Tuna Day 2021; May 2nd

FORUM: Sustainable development and management of fisheries and aquaculture.  

World Tuna Day 2021.

Their meat is rich in Omega-3 and it also contains minerals, proteins, and vitamin B12, among other advantages. If tuna markets can't control overfishing, more than biodiversity will be endangered. Learn about the goal's target related to overfishing and its importance for an industry that employs more than 200 million people. At present, over 96 countries are involved in the conservation and management of tuna, which has an annual value of almost 10 billion USD, and some FAO relevant programmes have started giving positive results in reducing overfishing.

Let's be optimistic about the tuna of tomorrow.

                                                            

Improve the identification of marine organisms of actual and potential interest to fisheries.

• Provide and disseminate tools to facilitate species identification in fisheries, and in so doing, improve fisheries data quality.
• Provide a global and coherent system of scientific and common nomenclature.

Priority is assigned to resources of major commercial importance or threatened and to developing regions facing difficulties in species identification.

Activities

• Secure the best up-to-date information calling upon knowledgeable specialists in taxonomy.
• Compile information on species distribution to produce distribution maps.
• Draw reliable and accurate illustrations of marine organisms and their anatomical details.
• Produce and distribute through different media, species identification information for fishery purposes.

 The United Nations General Assembly designated 2 May as World Tuna Day in its Resolution 71/124.

World Fisheries Day - November 21

Why Care about Fisheries?

- Fisheries and aquaculture employ more than 43 million individuals worldwide.
 - More than 25% of the world’s dietary protein is provided by fish.
- The human population consumes over 100 million metric tons of fish annually.
- Each year the Canadian fishery lands over 1 million metric tons of fish valued in excess of 2 billion dollars.
 - Globally, annual fisheries exports are valued at 85 to 90 billion dollars.
- Pollution continues to threaten water quality and fish habitat. All natural fish stocks today contain trace amounts of mercury.

World Fisheries Day - November 21

Fisheries and Aquaculture

In 1995, FAO member countries adopted the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, which sets out principles and methods applicable to all aspects of fisheries and aquaculture. The code outlines ways to achieve the sustainable development and management of fisheries and aquaculture.

FAO has developed four international plans of action dealing with seabirds, sharks, fishing capacity and illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing to support the code. Two special strategies have been designed to improve data collection and monitoring systems for both capture fisheries and aquaculture. A series of technical guidelines, intended to help translate the code’s principles into action, further promote the code’s implementation.


Fish for food, livelihood and trade 


As vast as the world’s oceans may seem, their resources are limited and their ecosystems fragile. FAO believes that they can be protected and conserved with careful and responsible stewardship. The Organization is committed to helping countries manage fisheries and aquaculture more effectively and to ensuring that fish continue to be a significant source of food, livelihood and trade for future generations.


KEY FACTS

•  Some 80 percent of the world’s fish production is used for human consumption. The rest is mostly processed into fishmeal and fish oil.

•  The number of people who are directly engaged in the primary production of fish either in capture from the wild or in aquaculture reached 44.9 million in 2008. In the last three decades the number of fishers and fish farmers has grown faster than the world’s population and employment in traditional agriculture.

• Fish and fish products reached a record US$102 billion dollars in exports in 2008, with further growth
  expected. In developing countries, fishery net-exports (exports minus imports) are higher than those for
  other agricultural commodities including coffee, tea, rice and bananas.

•  Some 53 percent of the world’s marine fishery resources are fully fished, or fished to the maximum
  sustainable level. Another 32 percent is overfished, depleted, or recovering from depletion.

•  Fish contributes to food security in many regions of the world.Numerous developing countries rely on fish as a major source of protein; in 28 of them, fish accounts for over 40 percent of animal protein intake.
   
•  Since 1970, fish production from aquaculture has increased at an average annual rate of 6.6 percent.
  With production reaching 52.5 million tonnes in 2008, aquaculture will soon overtake capture fisheries as a source of food fish.

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World Fisheries Day - November 21