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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. ISBN 978-92-5-106029-2
The tonnage from capture and aquaculture is listed by country. Capture includes fish , crustaceans , molluscs , etc. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] World capture fisheries and aquaculture production, from FAO's Statistical Yearbook 2021 [ 4 ]
Statistics are at the core of the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), its mandate and strategic goals. Article I of its Constitution states that “The Organization shall collect, analyse, interpret and disseminate information relating to nutrition, food and agriculture. […] the term ‘agriculture ...
Aquaculture involves cultivating freshwater, brackish water, and saltwater populations under controlled or semi-natural conditions and can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is the harvesting of wild fish. [2] Aquaculture is also a practice used for restoring and rehabilitating marine and freshwater ecosystems.
The FAO Country Profiles provide access to systems managing statistics, documents, maps, news feeds, etc., therefore one of its key aspects to succeed was the mapping of all these country codes. For this purpose a geopolitical ontology was developed. [ 11 ]
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.
The industry has three principal sectors that include recreational, subsistence or traditional, and commercial fishing. [1] [6]The commercial sector comprises enterprises and individuals associated with wild-catch or aquaculture resources and the various transformations of those resources into products for sale.
According to the FAO, in 2004 the United States ranked 10th in total aquaculture production, behind China, India, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Japan, Chile, and Norway. The United States imports aquaculture products from these and other countries, and operates an annual seafood trade deficit of over $9 billion. [20]