16 March 2016 - FAO has recently initiated a project to promote scuba-free, responsibly traded lobster from Honduras and Nicaragua in the US market. Two years ago, scuba diving and lobster were in the US press, and as a reaction against the practice and ...

08 March 2016 - The theme and slogan for the United Nations Observance of International Women's Day 2016 is "Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it Up for Gender Equality'' Today, the Rome-based UN agencies, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), ...

16 February 2016 - The Products, Trade and Marketing Branch (FIAM) of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department is looking for 2 Senior Fishery Officers.   Candidates need an advanced university degree, 10 years of relevant experience, working knowledge of English and limited knowledge of one of the other ...

03 February 2016 - Twenty years after the Beijing World Conference on Gender Equity, further efforts to promote equity and to shed light on the presence of women in the seafood industry need to be done in most developing and developed countries.  One in two ...

02 December 2015 - After years of rising seafood exports, global trade values are contracting in 2015. There are several reasons for this including the weakening of many key emerging markets, lower prices for a number of important species and the cancellation of the ...