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From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Mayeaux, Maxwell - NIFA</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:MMAYEAUX@nifa.usda.gov" target="_blank">MMAYEAUX@nifa.usda.gov</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 11:27 PM<br>
Subject: [aquacontacts] The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018 - UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)<br>
To: Aquacontacts <<a href="mailto:aquacontacts@lyris.nifa.usda.gov" target="_blank">aquacontacts@lyris.nifa.usda.gov</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman , serif"; color:black">MAIL GROUP NEWS</span></b><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">'The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018' is the title of a report released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) which found that "... global fish
production will continue to expand over the next decade even though the amount of fish being captured in the wild has leveled off and aquaculture's previously explosive growth is now slowing ... [The] report projects that by 2030 combined production from capture
fisheries and aquaculture will grow to 201 million tonnes ... That's an 18 percent increase over the current production level of 171 million tonnes ... In 2016, production from aquaculture reached 80 million tonnes, ... providing 53 percent of all fish consumed
by humans as food ... Some 59.9 percent of the major commercial fish species that FAO monitors are now being fished at biologically sustainable levels, while 33.1 percent are being fished at biologically unsustainable levels ... The other 7 percent are underfished
..."<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The title of the July 9, 2018 FAO News Article is "Is the planet approaching "peak fish"? Not so fast, study says; Significant production increases foreseen over coming
decade - Sector faces major challenges"<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">July 9, 2018 FAO News Article<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Web site:
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The July 9, 2018 FAO News Article is posted at
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<a href="http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1144274/icode/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.fao.org/news/story/<wbr>en/item/1144274/icode/</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">FAO's "The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018" report is available at
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<a href="http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/I9540EN" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.fao.org/documents/<wbr>card/en/c/I9540EN</span></a>
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* An Executive Summary is posted at <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.fao.org/3/ca0191en/CA0191EN.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.fao.org/3/ca0191en/<wbr>CA0191EN.pdf</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Information about the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department is available at
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<a href="http://www.fao.org/fishery/en" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.fao.org/fishery/en</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Contacts with the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department are listed at
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<span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.fao.org/fishery/about/organigram/en#Org-Contacts" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.fao.org/fishery/<wbr>about/organigram/en#Org-<wbr>Contacts</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Summary:
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The text of the July 9, 2018 FAO News Article follows:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">9 July 2018, Rome, Italy - Global fish production will continue to expand over the next decade even though the amount of fish being captured in the wild has levelled off
and aquaculture's previously explosive growth is now slowing, says a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The latest edition of the agency's The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA -
<a href="http://www.fao.org/state-of-fisheries-aquaculture/en/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.fao.org/state-of-<wbr>fisheries-aquaculture/en/</span></a> )
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">report projects that by 2030 combined production from capture fisheries and aquaculture will grow to 201 million tonnes. That's an 18 percent increase over the current
production level of 171 million tonnes. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">But future growth will require continued progress in strengthening fisheries management regimes, reducing loss and waste, and tackling problems like illegal fishing, pollution
of aquatic environments, and climate change, the report adds. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">"The fisheries sector is crucial in meeting FAO's goal of a world without hunger and malnutrition, and its contribution to economic growth and the fight against poverty
is growing," said FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">"The sector is not without its challenges, however, including the need to reduce the percentage of fish stocks fished beyond biological sustainability," he continued.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Trends in global fish supply
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture reports that 90.9 million tonnes of fish was captured in the wild in 2016 — a slight decrease of 2 million tonnes from the
year before, mainly due to periodic fluctuations in populations of Peruvian Anchoveta associated with El Niño.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Generally, the amount of fish being captured in the wild plateaued starting in the 1990s and has remained largely stable since.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Despite that fact, the world has for decades been consuming ever greater amounts of fish - 20.4 kg per capita in 2016 versus just under 10 kg/pc in the 1960s — thanks in
no small part to increased production via aquaculture, a sector which expanded rapidly during the 1980s and 1990s.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In 2016, production from aquaculture reached 80 million tonnes, according to SOFIA 2018 — providing 53 percent of all fish consumed by humans as food.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">While aquaculture's growth has slowed — it experienced 5.8 percent annual growth between 2010 and 2016, down from 10 percent in the 1980s and 1990s — it will still continue
to expand in the coming decades, especially in Africa. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Efforts to reduce the amount of fish being discarded at sea or thrown out post-capture — for example by using discards and trimmings to produce fishmeal — will also help
meet ongoing increases in demand for fish products. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The status of wild fish stocks
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Some 59.9 percent of the major commercial fish species that FAO monitors are now being fished at biologically sustainable levels, while 33.1 percent are being fished at
biologically unsustainable levels — a situation that SOFIA 2018 describes as "worrying." (The other 7 percent are underfished).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Just 40 years ago, 90 percent of FAO-monitored fisheries were being utilized at biologically sustainable levels, and just 10 percent were being fished unsustainably.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">These trends do not necessarily mean that no progress has been made toward achieving Sustainable Development Goal 14, which calls on the international community to effectively
regulate fish harvesting end overfishing, illegal fishing, and destructive fishing practices, and to implement science-based management plans aimed at restoring stocks.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">But FAO's report warns that the world has diverged in its approach to sustainable fisheries, with worsening overcapacity and stock status — too many boats chasing too few
fish — in developing countries offsetting improved fisheries management and stock statuses in developed ones.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Counteracting this will require building effective partnerships, particularly in policy coordination, financial and human resource mobilization and deployment of advanced
technologies (e.g. for monitoring fisheries). <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Other challenges
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Climate change and pollution are also cause for concern.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">While research suggests that climate change might cause overall global fish catch levels to vary by under 10 percent, significant shifts in where fish are caught are anticipated,
SOFIA 2018 notes. Catches are likely to drop in many fisheries-dependent tropical regions and rise in temperate areas of the north.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Shifts in the distribution of fisheries will have major operational, managerial, and jurisdictional implications, the report says. Research will be needed to develop strategies
for allowing both fisheries and the species they exploit to adapt smoothly to climate change.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Also needed: strengthened collaboration to address the problems that abandoned fishing gear debris and pollution by microplastics are causing in aquatic ecosystems. Priority
should be given to preventive measures that reduce marine litter and microplastics, efforts to upgrade recycling schemes to "circular economies" as well as phasing out single-use plastic, says FAO's report.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Key numbers from The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">* Total global fish production in 2016: 171 million tonnes
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- Share of that from marine capture fisheries: 79.3 million tonnes <br>
- From freshwater capture fisheries: 11.6 million tonnes <br>
- From aquaculture: 80 million tonnes <br>
* Amount of production consumed by humans as food: 151.2 million tonnes <br>
* Amount of production lost to spoilage a/o thrown away after landing and prior to consumption: 27 percent of all landings.
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* First-sale value of all fisheries and aquaculture production in 2016: $362 billion
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- Share of that from aquaculture: $232 billion <br>
* Number of people employed in fisheries and aquaculture: 59.6 million <br>
- Percentage of those who are women: 14 percent <br>
- Region with the most fishers and fish farmers: Asia (85 percent of the total) <br>
* Number of fishing vessels on the planet: 4.6 million <br>
- Largest fleet by region: Asia (3.3 million vessels, or 75% of the global fleet)
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* Percent of global fish production that enters international trade: 35 percent <br>
* Value of fish production exports: $143 billion <br>
* Net export revenues for developing countries ($37 billion) exceeds revenues from their exports of meat, tobacco, rice and sugar combined
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* World's largest fish producer and exporter: China <br>
* World's largest consumer market of fish and fish products: The European Union. Number two: The United States; Number three: Japan.
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* Most unsustainable fisheries: Mediterranean and Black Sea (62.2 percent overfished stocks), the Southeast Pacific (61.5%), Southwest Atlantic (58.8%)
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* Most sustainable fisheries: Eastern Central, Western Central, NE, NW and Southwest Pacific (all <17% of overfished stocks)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fish is life
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> (<a href="http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/I9540EN" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.fao.org/documents/<wbr>card/en/c/I9540EN</span></a>
) highlights how important fishing and fish farming are for people's livelihoods, including millions of families belonging to some of the world's poorest communities.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Worldwide, nearly 60 million people (14 percent of them women) are directly employed in fisheries and aquaculture sector, whose first sale production value in 2016 added
up to $362 billion. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fish account for about 17 percent of animal protein consumed by the global population and overall provide about 3.2 billion people on the planet with nearly 20 percent
of their animal protein. And fish represents a highly nutritious food especially helpful in counteracting micronutrient deficiencies.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Global trends can mask the crucial dietary contributions fish make in poorer countries, however. For example, in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Gambia, Ghana, Indonesia, Sierra
Leone, Sri Lanka and some small island development states, fish supplies fifty percent or more of people's protein intake.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black">Maxwell H. Mayeaux, Ph.D.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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