Within the framework of the Slow Fish initiatives, on the 21st of May the Low Impact Fishers of Europe held a workshop addressed to the stakeholders of the sector to discuss together the policy needed in the EU for small scale fishers and to better inform the future work to be...

Esta publicación es el producto der un proceso de consulta liderado por FAO y UNISDR durante 2016 a raíz del lanzamiento del Marco de Acción de Sendai para la Reducción del Riesgo 2015-2030. Buscó identificar los elementos clave para su implementación en el sector agrícola (cultivos, ganadería, bosques, pesca y...

This issue of FAN contains an invited editorial on Feeding Global Aquaculture Growth, and four main sections on: (1) Global aquaculture updates with an article from statistician’s desk presenting an overview of recently published global aquaculture statistics; one article providing information on the tenth session of the GFCM Scientific Advisory...

In West Africa, the fisheries and aquaculture sector is still facing challenges that hamper its harmonious development and do not allow the sector to contribute sustainably to food and nutrition security and chronical poverty reduction within the populations of West Africa. These difficulties include mainly: (i) weakness of fisheries resources management...

Black Sea anchovies and other marine fish are an important food source for Georgia. With new standards of hygiene and food safety in place, the country can also look forward to exporting processed fish to international markets. State-of-the-art laboratory equipment, training for laboratory technicians and inspectors, and comprehensive regulations and procedures...

The aim of this study was to gather information on current animal welfare practices in European aquaculture as regards the transport and slaughter of farmed fish, and to analyse the extent that fish welfare issues remain unresolved. The costs of adhering to good welfare practices, the economic situation, effects on...

A  leaflet on opportunities for small-scale coastal fishermen in the EMFF.

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.   

This document has been prepared based on sound scientific principles and international approaches to monitoring cage aquaculture facilities. In general this is a guide to help support good monitoring practice, with details on what to monitor, parameters to be collected, how data is collected, appropriate ways to process the data...

The PNBA was established in 1976 to preserve biodiversity, particularly migratory bird colonies. In 2000, the objectives broadened to include development of the local communities, which was deemed to be an integral part of the ecosystem, and the park’s management adopted a development and management plan (DMP). The aim of this...

The Expert Meeting on Climate Change Implications for Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries, was held at the GFCM, Rome, 4–6 December 2017, with the objective to provide technical support the development of an adaptation strategy to cope with the potential effects of climate change on fisheries, in the framework of...

How the failure to properly recognise and regulate the EU’s fish producer organisations [POs] is failing the Common Fisheries Policy and smaller-scale fishermen and what should be done to resolve it.

Sweden: extra quota allocation to trawlers could put the survival of the Western Baltic Cod stock and SSFs are risk

The newsletter of November 2017 includes: ICCAT 2017: historically high bluefin tuna quota – but what about small-scale fishers? Fundacja MARE and LIFE at the forefront for a cleaner Baltic Sea Other news from around the EU News from our members Welcome on board Press review

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs. 

This document reviews the status and trends in aquaculture development in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region. It updates the last Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) “Regional Review on Status and Trends in Aquaculture Development in the Near East and North Africa – 2010”...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs. 

The forty-first session of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean as well as the eighth session of the Committee on Administration and Finance was attended by delegates of 22 contracting parties, as well as of three cooperating non-contracting parties and one non-contracting party. Representatives from 20 intergovernmental and non-governmental...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs. 

This presentation will provide the policy background, then look at the current status of main South African stocks, followed by a discussion on the economic returns from small-scale fishing and what can and cannot be expected from implementation of the policy; concluding with recommendations on the way forward.