Representatives from China, the European Union, Oman, South Africa, FAO, and the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA), joined a side event held on 20 May 2025 during the 13th Session of the FAO Sub-Committee on Aquaculture of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI:AQ) at the FAO hea...

7 March, Rome – There are various species of mud or mangrove crabs, but what they all have in common is that they live and reproduce in the rich, muddy soil between the tangled roots of mangrove trees in coastal tropical ecosystems in Asia, the Pacific, South America and West ...

11 February, Rome - When the public and the private sector join hands, aquaculture value chains can perform better in terms of environmental, economic and social sustainability, according to international experts.

Indeed, the FAO Guidelines for Sustainable Aquaculture (G...

7 October, Rome - During a visit to Shanghai Ocean University (SHOU) in October, FAO Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol spoke about FAO’s Blue Transformation Roadmap.

Addressing SHOU’s President and students, she explained how Blue Transformation advances FAO’s work to promote sustaina...

Rome – Experts from Asia, the Americas and Europe gathered from 2-6 September for a training workshop on safeguarding salt-lake brine shrimp (Artemia spp.) resources for aquaculture.

The workshop was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the ...

14 June, Rome – Traditional rice growers in Nigeria have found that by introducing fish into their fields they can boost their yields and cut costs, which means more money in their pockets to buy food for themselves and their families.

They did so by working with an ...

The first meeting of the founding members of GSAAP was held virtually Tuesday 22 November 2022

FAO convened two sessions of “Seaweed Aquaculture Policy Dialogue”: the first from 11–12 May 2022 with participation of 20 countries in Asia and Africa...