News
COVID-19 is having a major impact on the majority of fisheries and aquaculture sectors around the globe. For more information and to learn about what may be done to mitigate the impacts, visit the following FAO Web site: COVID-19 and its impact on the fisheries and aquaculture sector.
05/11/2024
24 October 2024, COLOMBO – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with funding from the government of Norway, [...more]
13/06/2024
Location: Marine Institute, Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada
Date: 3-7 June 2024
Background
The ICES/FAO Working Group on Fishing Technology and Fish Behaviour (WGFTFB) [...more]
27/05/2024
Date: 22 May 2024
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
This week, 28 multi-day fishing vessel owners, boat builders and government fishery officials [...more]
28/02/2024
The RegLitter Inception Meeting and the second GloLitter Asia Regional Task Force Workshop will be held back-to-back in Hanoi, Viet [...more]
23/12/2022
The Senegal Ministry of Fisheries and Maritime Economy (Ministère des Pêches et de l’Économie maritime) has completed the development of [...more]
GloLitter Partnerships Project Central America and Caribbean Regional Task Force Meeting, Costa Rica
30/11/2022
As part of the GloLitter Partnerships project to reduce marine plastic litter from maritime transport and the fishing sector, a [...more]
21/09/2022
On September 18th the GloLitter Partnerships Project organized the first Regional Task Force meeting for Asia and Pacific regions in [...more]
28/01/2022
On 24th January 2022, the GloLitter Partnerships Project opened its webinar series with a presentation of the report of the Joint Group of [...more]
13/12/2021
Today, Ocean Conservancy’s Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Maritime [...more]
24/11/2021
The Responsible Fishing Operations team is developing a Technical Manual for Marking Fishing Gear that will supplement the Voluntary Guidelines [...more]