Fisheries and aquaculture play a vital role in food security: about 90 percent of the fishermen are small-scale. FAO will continue supporting and empowering young fishers to achieve ...

Cultures of South America and the Caribbean, Southern Africa and the Horn of Africa and Southeast Asia are the most that could be affected by the weather phenomenon “El Niño”According to the FAO said. The ...

A number of key findings have been documented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the AR5, which will be crucial in the formulation of public policy in the years ahead. Although you can find in AR5 ...

One out of two pieces of fish we eat not from the wild. They are farmed. Else tasty fish can be environmentally friendly? The experimental farm of the National Institute for Agronomic Research, INRA in their ...

Human activities in the global ecosystem is increasingly more and worse consequences. Now, the unfortunate and unexpected surprise was found in Australia, where scientists have found fish with skin cancer for the first time. The danger of exposing ...

Changes in temperature and other conditions, that have taken place in our Sea have led not only to the main fishing resource like anchovy sticking to the coast, deepening or migrate to other areas in search ...

In order to preserve the fishery resources of the Peruvian Sea, the Ministry of Production today released the new Regulation of Satellite Tracking System (SISESAT) for fishing vessels, which will be effective in 180 calendar days, as ...

Combating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) has taken a big step forward with the adoption of a set of international guidelines that allow states greater responsibility for the activities of vessels ...

The member countries of the FAO today approved a series of broad guidelines that will drive the vital role of artisanal fishermen in contributing to global food security, nutrition and poverty eradication. ...