Food Loss and Waste in Fish Value Chains

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One of the major issues prevailing in the fisheries and aquaculture industry in Sri Lanka is the high loss and waste of fish, and it has become necessary to introduce strategies aimed at preventing and...
Syntheses of key scientific and technical guidelines to help regulators and industry practitioners address three systemic challenges facing the aquaculture industry: spatial conflicts with others, exceeding carrying capacity of waterbodies and disease amplification. 
Effective governance of modern aquaculture must reconcile ecological and human well-being so that the industry is sustainable. Without effective governance, there will be misallocation of resources, stagnation of the industry, and irreversible environmental damage.
This publication highlights key gender inequalities in fisheries and aquaculture value chains that lead to underperformance by women, and proposes good practice policies that can influence increases in production and processing of high-quality fish....