ALCOM Report No. 15

ALCOM                                                                                         GCP/INT/555/SWE
Aquaculture for Local Community Development Programme     GCP/RAF/277/BEL

ALCOM Report No. 15

Aquaculture into the 21st Century in Southern Africa

Report prepared by the Working Group on the Future of ALCOM

Funding Agencies:
SWEDISH INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
BELGIAN ADMINISTRATION FOR DEVELOPMENT CO-OPERATION

Executing Agency:
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANISATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Harare, Zimbabwe, September 1994

Contents
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Contents

SUMMARY
  
1.INTRODUCTION
  
2.STATUS AND TRENDS IN AQUACULTURE DEVELOPMENT
2.1.Inland aquaculture and small water bodies' exploitation
2.1.1.Overview of inland aquaculture and physical potential in Southern Africa
2.1.2Summary inland aquaculture trends in Southern Africa
2.2.Marine and brackishwater aquaculture
2.2.1.Mariculture in Southern Africa
2.2.2.Summary of trends in mariculture
  
3.AQUACULTURE INSTITUTIONS
  
4.SADC's AND GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PLANS FOR AQUACULTURE DEVELOPMENT
4.1.SADC: Background and general policy
4.2.SADC's fisheries sector policy
4.3.National fisheries policies
  
5.DONOR AGENCIES' POLICIES AND SUPPORT TO THE AQUACULTURE SECTOR
5.1.The SADC fisheries development programme
5.2.Donor support to aquaculture development
5.3.Experiences from past and ongoing projects and programmes
  
6.ALCOM 1986 – 1994
6.1.Institutional aspects and mode of implementation
6.2.Objectives and changes in objectives 1986 – 1993
6.3.Activities and results
6.4.ALCOM during 1993 – 1994
6.5.Successes and failures
  
7.OUTLOOK FOR INLAND AQUACULTURE UP TO 2005
7.1.Considerations
7.1.1.Physical limitations
7.1.2.Macro-economic considerations
7.2.Outlook for the next ten years
  
8.OUTLOOK FOR MARINE AND BRACKISHWATER AQUACULTURE UP TO 2005
8.1.Considerations
8.1.1.Physical limitations
8.1.2.Macro-economic considerations
8.2.Outlook for the next ten years
  
9.NEEDS FOR DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS
9.1.Priority areas
9.2.Assessment of needs
9.2.1.Small-scale inland aquaculture
9.2.2.Utilization of small water bodies
9.2.3.Mariculture
9.2.4.Aquaculture institutions
  
10.OUTLINE OF A REGIONAL PROGRAMME FROM 1995 TO 1999
10.1.Background
10.2.A brief outline of ALCOM Phase III, 1995 – 1999
10.3.Institutional arrangements
10.4.Resources required
  
11.RECOMMENDATIONS
  
REFERENCES
  
TABLES
1. Trends in inland aquaculture development
2.Review of donor support to fisheries and aquaculture: preliminary results of desk study
3.Indicative Official Development Assistance (ODA) by donor countries to SADC (1988 and 1989)

APPENDICES

1.         INLAND AQUACULTURE PROFILES

2.         MARICULTURE PROFILES

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