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SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

Recognising the growing challenges facing the small-scale fishing sector, including climate change, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is to help the Bay of Bengal countries to prepare a national…

16th September 2025

FAO to help Bay of Bengal countries prepare action plan for small-scale fisheries

16th September 2025

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in Lebanon, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, recently held a technical workshop in Saida Municipality as part of the project…

4th August 2025

Lebanon looks to strengthen fisheries value chain

4th August 2025

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

Fifty specialists from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Uruguay recently participated in a…

8th July 2025

FAO promotes sustainable aquaculture guidelines in Latin America, Caribbean

8th July 2025

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The recently unveiled European Ocean Pact strategic initiative has been welcomed by the Federation of European Aquaculture Producers (FEAP) for offering a renewed approach for EU maritime sectors, including aquaculture, and for…

2nd July 2025

FEAP: European Ocean Pact completely ignores freshwater aquaculture

2nd July 2025

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

A treaty ceremony held by the FAO in Rome on 30 June 2025 saw four new accessions to FAO’s international treaties on fisheries deposited with the Director-General of FAO.

2nd July 2025

Quartet of new accessions to FAO fisheries treaties

2nd July 2025

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched its most comprehensive and participatory global assessment of marine fish stocks to-date. Including contributions from more than 650 experts from…

19th June 2025

Moving in the right direction – FAO releases latest, biggest assessment of global fish stocks

19th June 2025

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

With leading marine scientists sounding the alarm as global oceans edge closer to a critical tipping point due to the compounding pressures of climate change, overfishing and habitat degradation, the Marine Stewardship…

19th June 2025

UNOC 2025 echoes down under: New FAO data, Aussie innovation and the future of fishing

19th June 2025

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

The International Day for the Fight Against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing – every year on 5 June – is not merely a note on the calendar, it is a global call…

5th June 2025

GFCM: Major advances made in the fight against IUU fishing

5th June 2025

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is now connected to the FLUX TL network, with network nodes implemented at FAO enabling the exchange of fisheries control information through the FLUX transportation layer…

26th May 2025

FAO implements standard for fisheries information exchange

26th May 2025

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

Another 20 legal professionals are now in a better position to assist their respective countries in developing and executing national plans and processes for the effective detection, investigation and the prosecution of…

12th May 2025

Twenty legal professionals complete FAO’s IUU fishing course

12th May 2025

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

Efforts to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing have received a boost from the People’s Republic of China, the world’s largest capture fisheries producer, which has become the 108th State to join the FAO…

22nd April 2025

China signs up to PSMA fisheries pact

22nd April 2025

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

While aquaculture is widely recognised as being crucial to global food security, the recent Blue Food Innovation Summit heard the industry needs to do much more to ensure it can meet the…

16th April 2025

UN: Global food security requires ‘silicon fjord’ innovation to trickle down to all aquaculture

16th April 2025

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

Ukraine has become the latest FAO member to become a party to the Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA), with the agreement entered into force on 12 March 2025, 30 days after the…

20th March 2025

Ukraine becomes 80th party to the PSMA

20th March 2025

OPINION

OPINION

This time last year, we were stuck. It seemed our once-energetic, innovative, tuna-centric community was still trying to shake off the gumption-deadening malaise of the 2020–2023 Covid-19 pandemic. After witnessing many years…

15th January 2025

Op-Ed: Electronic monitoring revival shows we can still do hard things

15th January 2025

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Recognising that aquaculture is becoming increasingly vital for food security, employment and economic development in the Mediterranean and Black Sea region and that the sector has experienced strong growth in recent years,…

11th December 2024

Mediterranean, Black Sea countries align on aquaculture vision

11th December 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Global fisheries and aquaculture production is projected to increase by 2.2% to nearly 192 million tonnes in 2024, with wild catch volumes recovering by 1.1% after a poor 2023 influenced by El…

10th December 2024

FAO: Global fish consumption stagnating

10th December 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

A panel of experts has called for differential treatment of developing nations on the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, emphasising the need to protect the livelihoods of millions of…

26th November 2024

WTO urged to protect small-scale fishers

26th November 2024

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

Seventeen key decisions, including 12 binding recommendations, that will enhance the sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture in the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions were adopted during the 47th session of the General Fisheries…

11th November 2024

Mediterranean, Black Sea sustainability boost

11th November 2024

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been assisting Timor-Leste with the preparation of a National Strategy and Action Plan that will bring the Southeast Asian country compliant…

7th October 2024

Timor-Leste helped with combating IUU fishing

7th October 2024

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has praised the inclusion of fisheries, aquaculture, and family farming in the G20’s 2023 priorities, emphasising their role in global nutrition and livelihoods.

16th September 2024

FAO applauds G20 focus on fisheries and aquaculture

16th September 2024