Inland fisheries and their associated ecosystem services make valuable contributions to achieving several of the SDGs including SDG 1 (No poverty), SDG 2 (Zero hunger), SDG 14 (Life below water) and SDG 15 (Life on land). They produce around 12 million tonnes of fish per year of which almost all is used for...

Sustainable inland fisheries rely on healthy aquatic ecosystems for the capacity to deliver the food, water, and habitat. These services cannot be ensured by the fisheries sector alone and managing them requires a multisectoral approach. The Fisheries and Aquaculture and Forestry Divisions are jointly implementing a series of activities under...

  We sat down with professor Jeppe Kolding to learn more about the relation between Inland fisheries, nutrition and economic development, why we should pay more attention to this sector, and how it can increase food security and nutrition for communities all over the world.   Can you talk about the importance...

The Kiribati Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with INFOFISH and The Pacific Community (SPC) joined efforts to organize a side event to promote the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022 (IYAFA 2022). The...

Rome, 5 September 2022 -  In the opening day of the 35th session of the Committee on Fisheries a high level event on the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022) was held. The hybrid event began with the intervention of FAO’s Director-General, Qu Dongyu who reaffirmed the...