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New articles by FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Departmental staff in external journals;
Citation analysis;
List of cancelled journals;
Group of Experts for Marine Information Management.

The NEPAD-FAO Fish Programme (NFFP) and the Smartfish Programme are jointly organizing a regional workshop on climate change, disasters and crises in the fisheries and aquaculture sector in Southern and Eastern Africa. The objective of the workshop is to establish the current baseline regarding the integration of climate change adaptation and disaster risk management in fisheries and aquaculture activities and policies, and vice versa, and to coordinate activities, identify gaps, and priority actions to be supported by the NFFP and other partners. Workshop announcement

Tuna and tuna-like species are a significant source of nutritious food and livelihoods. They include approximately 40 species occurring in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans and in the Mediterranean Sea.
Over the years, FAO has formulated and implemented various global, regional and national projects and facilitated meetings (often externally funded) in support of the management of tuna fisheries and capture-based aquaculture.

Two decades of concerted efforts on agriculture intensification, irrigation and water system development, fertilizer plants, high quality seed plants, troops of agriculture trainers supported by FAO experts, village cooperatives, direct credits for farmers and fishers, village infrastructure, medical facilities and schools, has helped turn around Indonesia's agricultural sector. FAO's Indroyono Soesilo, Director of Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources Use and Conservation Division/Fisheries and Aquaculture Department and Laurent Thomas, Assistant Director-General for Technical Cooperation explain how in this op-ed.

During the recent FIRMS Steering Committee, held at FAO headquarters in Rome, participants considered how to widen the partnership’s scope and include a socio-economic dimension to the system - a scientific component in support to responsible decision-making. FIRMS currently covers over 1200 fishery stocks and now brings greater emphasis on management information, which enhances its commitment to contribute fishery indicators to the state of the environment and ecosystems in support of sustainable fisheries. As a result, the FIRMS partnership decided to modify its name to the Fisheries and Resources Monitoring System to better reflect increasing information on fisheries and their management.

Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (RLC) Commission for Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture of Latin America and the Caribbean (COPESCAALC)

The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department report of the FAO workshop on putting into practice the FAO technical guidelines on marine protected areas (MPAS) and fisheries is now available online. This document provides a summary of the presentations, discussions, conclusions and recommendations of the 2012 workshlp which was jointly organized by FAO, SEAFDEC and the BOBLME project.

The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture has recently published a review of the status of fisheries and aquaculture in Azerbaijan. This circular, which also includes a historial overview, aims to increase awareness among small-scale fishers and aquaculturists in Azerbaijan, as well as in the Central Asian region in general, on the status, regulations, policies, plans, challenges and opportunities of the sector.

FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes No. 7 is now available. This catalogue provides comprehensive and updated information on the identification, taxonomy, distribution, biology and ecology of the sharks, rays, skates and chimaeras of the North Atlantic (FAO Areas 21 and 27). The volume, prepared by the FAO FishFinder programme, is fully indexed and also includes sections on terminology and measurements including an extensive glossary, a list of species by FAO Statistical Areas and a dedicated bibliography.

A new study published by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean , Elasmobranchs of the Mediterranean and Black Sea: status, ecology and biology, biographic analysis, provides general information on taxonomy, distribution, status, statistics,fisheries, bycatch, biologic and ecologic parameters on age and growth, food and feeding habits, reproductive biology and stock assessment of elasmobranchs in the Mediterranean and Black Sea.

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Across South and Southeast Asia, the livelihoods of some 5.6 million coastal small-scale fishers are among the most insecure and vulnerable in the area. The Regional Fisheries Livelihood Programme for South and Southeast Asia (RFLP) , funded by the Kingdom of Spain and implemented by FAO, sets out to strengthen capacity among participating small-scale fishing communities and their supporting institutions in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste and Viet Nam. Baseline surveys have been undertaken for each country. To highlight the key baseline findings and make the survey results more accessible and understandable, graphic summaries of each survey have been produced.

A workshop to develop an action plan towards the creation of a Regional Information System for the South West Indian Ocean region agreed to: creating a prototype harmonized information system, a working methodology and a road map to present both the prototype together with sustainability assessment considerations to regional decision-makers in 2013. The workshop report is now available online. The workshop was organized in collaboration with SmartFish .

The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report of the Fourth FAO Expert Advisory Panel for the assessment of proposals to amend Appendices I and II of CITES concerning commercially-exploited aquatic species is now available. The Panel, which met in December 2012, was convened in response to the agreement by the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) for an expert advisory panel for assessing relevant proposals to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Panel for future CITES Conference of the Parties.

Traditional and modern breeding techniques needed to increase food production in aquaculture Bangkok, Thailand, 28 Jan 2013 -- Fisheries experts from more than 13 countries opened the first of two consultations today that could herald new ways of reducing hunger and poverty by cataloguing and improving aquatic genetic resources for food and agriculture. Most farmed fish have not been domesticated the way that farmed crops and livestock have been, so farmed fish remain very similar to their wild relatives. The meeting will consider the benefits of genetic improvement by using traditional breeding techniques as well as modern genetic technologies to increase growth rates, reduce inputs and improve the cost-effectiveness of aquaculture.