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FAO Role in the World Fisheries
Issues
Joji Morishita
Fisheries Agency of Japan, Government of Japan
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The Kyoto Declaration and Plan of Action on the Sustainable Contribution of
Fisheries to Food Security
(adopted on
9 December 1995)
Recognition of the significant role of fisheries for food security, economic
and social welfare
Respect and understanding of social, economic and cultural differences in the
use of living aquatic resources
- Promote scientific research
- Maintenance of ecological systems
- Application of a precautionary approach
- Control of fishing capacity
- Conservation of biological diversity
- Multi-species management
- Optimum use of unexploited, under-exploited, new resources
- Reduction of discard mortality
- Selective and environmentally safe gears
- Post-harvest, storage, processing and safety
- Enhancement of coastal and inland fisheries
- Sustainable aquaculture and ranching
- Consistency between trade and food security
- Public awareness of nutritional value of fish
- Assistance to developing countries
The Rome Declaration on the Implementation of the Code of Conduct for
Responsible Fisheries
(adopted on 11 March 1999)
- FAO's essential contribution to international fisheries governance
- Highest priority to achieving sustainability of food capture fisheries and
aquaculture
- Effective implementation of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries
- Efforts to strengthen the functions and responsibilities of FAO regional
fishery bodies in the aid to developing countries
- Development of a Global Plan of Action to deal with FOC and IUU (illegal,
unregulated and unreported) fishing
- Trade and environment
- Ecosystem approach
- Reduction of wastage, destructive fishing practices
Current Projects
- The International Plan of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity
- The International Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of
Sharks
- The International Plan of Action for Reducing Incidental Catch of Seabirds
in Longline Fisheries
- Exploration of CITES criteria for the listing of aquatic species exploited
by fisheries
- Eco-labelling
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