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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