In a meeting between the UN agency, the private sector, seafood companies, and FOA, it was decided that the energy can be used in fisheries sector throughout various stages of the value chain. There was discussion on the efforts that should be use to improve the industry’s efficiency in light of growing concerns over carbon emissions and global warming.
The outcome of the Bremen roundtable meeting and a meeting of April will feed into a high level conference on climate change and food security that will be held at the Organization’s Rome headquarters in June this year. It is informed that 2006 meeting was focused on the growing profile of aquaculture in the global supply chain.
Bremen’s annual Fish International trade fair allowed FAO to meet with a wide range of industry representatives from distinct sub-sectors and geographic regions. Grimur Valdimarsson, Director of FAO’s Fish Products and Industry Division, expressed that the FAO’s meeting in Bremen with different organizations help to boost the fishing industry’s energy efficiency to its zenith. He added that FAO has a mandate to engage with governments, civil society, and the private sector.
