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Fisheries technical paper T457, ISBN 92-5-105267-0; FAO (2006) Yearbooks of Fishery Statistics Summary Tables; FAO (2007) State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2006 Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Rome. ISBN 978-92-5-105568-7; FAO (2009) State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2008 Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Rome.
This code of conduct, adopted by FAO members on 31 October 1995, contains a broad set of principles and methods for developing and managing fisheries and aquaculture. A voluntary, non-binding instrument, the code is widely recognized as the global standard for settling out the aims of sustainable fisheries and aquaculture for the coming decades.
The FAO Major Fishing Areas are areas in the world in what the Food and Agriculture Organization has divided the fishery.This definition is required for the statistical data-gathering, the management of fisheries and jurisdictional purposes.
According to the FAO, "...a fishery is an activity leading to harvesting of fish.It may involve capture of wild fish or raising of fish through aquaculture." It is typically defined in terms of the "people involved, species or type of fish, area of water or seabed, method of fishing, class of boats, purpose of the activities or a combination of the foregoing features".
Following is a sortable table of the world fisheries' harvest of aquatic plants for 2005. The tonnage from capture and aquaculture is listed by country. Countries whose total harvest was less than 100,000 tons are not included.
World capture fisheries and aquaculture production by species group [1] This is a list of aquatic animals that are harvested commercially in the greatest amounts, listed in order of tonnage per year (2012) by the Food and Agriculture Organization. Species listed here have an annual tonnage in excess of 160,000 tonnes.
FAO fisheries expert, Ceylon, 1950s. The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department is defined through its vision and mission statements: Vision: A world in which responsible and sustainable use of fisheries and aquaculture resources makes an appreciable contribution to human well-being, food security and poverty alleviation.
Fisheries management decisions are often based on population models, but the models need quality data to be effective. He asserts that scientists and fishery managers would be better served with simpler models and improved data. [29] The most reliable source for summary statistics is the FAO Fisheries Department. [30]