The FAO Fishery and Aquaculture Circular C942 Revision 4 (C942 Rev. 4) provides a comprehensive overview of the global status of inland capture fisheries. This review analyzes trends of inland capture fisheries at global, continental and subcontinental levels, highlighting the [...]

Dia, M. 2023. Profil de la pêche continentale en Guinée. Circulaire de la FAO sur les pêches et l'aquaculture, No. 1266. Rome, FAO. Le sous-secteur de la pêche continentale guinéenne est doté d’un potentiel important mais peine à marquer ses repères en raison de [...]

Según FishStatJ de FAO, las capturas de las pesquerías continentales de América Latina y el Caribe que se analizan en este documento alcanzaron 510 499 toneladas en 2019, lo que corresponde al 4 por ciento de la captura continental en [...]

This study confirms that fishing is an important activity in the Peruvian Amazon region. Using data from the national household survey and official landing statistics we arrive at two estinmates for the annual fish catch in the Peruvian Amazon basin [...]

This study analyses quantitative data of fish catches and fish consumption in the Amazon basin of Colombia. It is concluded that more than 15 000 tonnes are caught annually in rivers belonging to the Amazon basin of Colombia. One sixth [...]

The present study, commissioned by the Sub-Division of Marine and Inland Resources of the Fisheries Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), takes stock of the inland fisheries in Mali, Mauritania and Senegal with a [...]

Inland fisheries are important sources of ecosystem services contributing to human diet, health, well-being and economies. The evaluation of the importance and value of inland fisheries is one of the biggest challenges for its development. To develop the inland fisheries [...]

The two and a half day Advisory Roundtable was convened to contribute to FAO’s response to the request by the 32nd Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI), to i) advise FAO on its approach to developing a more comprehensive [...]

The FAO Fishery and Aquaculture Circular C942 Revision 3 (C942 Rev. 3) updates and expands the scope of previous revisions of the circular. C942 Rev. 3 is an important baseline document, intended to assist in the global understanding of inland [...]

The fisheries and aquaculture sector supports the livelihoods of between 10 percent and 12 percent of the world’s population, and in the last five decades its production has significantly outpaced population growth. This Technical Paper is intended to update the Cochrane [...]