Boost access to marine foods for vulnerable populations
A €20 million venture aims to target blue transformation innovation as the FAO and the EU launch an initiative to increase access to safe and nutritious aquatic foods for vulnerable…
Tuna loader marks a milestone in FISH4ACP support
Hailed as a game-changing technology for the tuna industry in the Marshall Islands, a tuna loader was officially handed over to the tuna industry and port services company Pacific International…
16 November 2022, Pudimadaka, Andhra Pradesh, India- Ammoru Maddu, 60, a fisherman from the local community, poses for a portrait on a boat.
This photo mission has been supported by Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (ICAR- CIFT), India.
Partnering to strengthen the implementation of SSF guidelines
The Bay of Bengal Programme Inter-Governmental Organisation (BOBP-IGO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have signed a Letter of Agreement to host a regional capacity-building…
Partners take stock of successes and challanges
A recent meeting of the FAO-led Common Oceans Tuna Project was to take stock of progress over the past year in advancing sustainable management and biodiversity conservation in tuna fisheries,…
One of Pingtan's four tuna longline vessels (PRNewsFoto/Pingtan Marine Enterprise Ltd.)
China becomes party to the PSMA
The world’s largest capture fisheries producer, China has become the 108th State to join the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing…
Developing a blueprint for ecosystem-based tuna management
A gathering of fisheries managers, scientists, industry and civil society representatives over three days in Rome to develop a blueprint for implementation of an ecosystem approach by RFMOs with a…
Rebuilding Gaza’s fisheries hinges on peace and safe access
The ongoing conflict in Gaza has brought the areas’s once thriving fishing sector to the point of collapse, but the situation could still be reversed if peace is restored and…
World Fisheries Day 2024 – Protecting Fishers From Human Trafficking
The ITF will join representatives from civil society, academia and the UN at a Geneva event at the Palais des Nations today – 21st November – on World Fisheries Day…
Global fish biomass faces steep drop, warns FAO
A set of new projections highlight potential climate risks to exploitable fish biomass for nearly all regions of the world's ocean, including top producer countries and those with high reliance…
Aquaculture overtakes capture fisheries
The forthcoming State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2024 report, due to be made public shortly, indicates that world aquaculture production has for the first time outstripped capture fisheries. According…