Pressure on finite ocean resources growing - future catches depend on better management.
At a major international conference on fisheries management being held this week in Australia, FAO is underscoring the need for governments to establish clear and fair rules for managing access to fishery resources.
"It has been clear for some time that the world's fisheries are finite and that our catches have to be similarly finite. It's also clear that not everybody can participate in fisheries -- access to capture fisheries must be limited," said Ichiro Nomura, FAO Assistant Director-General for Fisheries, in a speech today at the opening of the Sharing the Fish 2006 Conference (Fremantle, Western Australia, 26 February - 2 March).
