Manuel Barange

Director Fisheries and Aquaculture Division

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Rome, Italy

Manuel.barange@fao.org @Manu_FAO

State of World’s Fisheries and

Aquaculture

1 October 2018, Vigo, Spain

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and Nutrition in the World 2018. Building climate resilience for food

security and nutrition. Rome, FAO

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Agricultural trade, climate change and food security. Rome

HungerPoverty Sustainability

NUMBER OF UNDERNOURISHED PEOPLE IN THE WORLD HAS BEEN

ON THE RISE SINCE 2014, REACHING 821 MILLION IN 2017

CHANGES IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN 2050: CLIMATE CHANGE

RELATIVE TO THE BASELINE

9–13 July 2018

725 delegateS from 124 member States/ Countries and 87 IGO/ NGO/ UN agencies

World capture fisheries and aquaculture production

Other

China

Indonesia

USARussiaPeru

China

Other

India

Indonesia

Vietnam Bangladesh

AQUACULTURE TOP FIVE (82%)

MARINE TOP FIVE (43%)

In 2016 reached an all-time high of 171 million tonnes

(90Mt capture, 80Mt culture)

88 percent utilized for direct human consumption

Thanks to:

Stable capture fisheries production,

Reduced wastage and

Aquaculture growth

Capture Production Aquaculture Production

0%

10%

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50%

60%

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80%

90%

100%

1974 1979 1983 1987 1990 1995 2000 2006 2009 2013

Underfished (7%)

Maximally Sustainably Fished (59.9%) – new term

Overfished (33.1%)

Continues to show worrying trends:

Overfished stocks increased to 33.1 percent in 2015

Stocks fished within biologically sustainable levels decreased to 66.9 percent

The global picture masks clear signs of recovery in developed, but not in developing countries

This regional sustainability divide constitutes a major challenge to achieving SDG14.4 (By 2020 all stocks at MSY level)

Status of marine capture fisheries resources

86/14

87/13

83/17

38/62

83/17

83/17

74/26

67/33

74/26

73/27

74/26

60/4057/43

41/59 68/32

38/62

83/17

7.8%

5.7%

15.4%5.3%

3.0%

3.9%

27.3%

11.4%

2.3%

2.1%

1.6%

0.7%

1.7%

2.1%

9.8%

% Sustainable/ % Unsustainable

% Total catch in region

Regional state of the world’s marine fish stocks (2015 data)

World fish utilization and apparent consumption PO

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Of the world’s top 30 fish-consuming nations, 22 are Low-income-Food-Deficit (LIFD) countries

Food Non-food uses Population Apparent consumption

151.2 million tonnes

19.7 million tonnes

7.4 billion

20.3 kg/ capita

Production

Total fish exports

Exports for human consumption

35% of all fish products enter the international trade

Exports value of US$143 billion (54% for Developing countries, by value)

Net trade revenue for developing countries (US$37 billion) exceeds that of all

meats, tobacco, rice, sugar combined

Fish exports (in volume) in 2016 represent a 245 percent increase over 1976

Fish Trade and Commodities

Employment in fisheries and aquaculture

10-12% of the world’s population relies on fisheries for their livelihood

Total Capture fisheries

Global capture fisheries and aquaculture production, 1990-2030

2030 Capture production 91 mT (1% growth from 2016)

Aquaculture 109 mT (37% growth from 2016)

Consumption 21.5 kg/capita (5.9% growth)

Fish production, consumption and trade.

Aquaculture anticipated to fill the supply–demand gap. But its growth rate will slow down over time.

Prices will in nominal terms while in real terms.

Food fish supply, but per capita fish consumption in Africa, which raises food security concerns.

FAO Technical Paper 627 Impacts of Climate Change in Fisheries and Aquaculture.

http://www.fao.org/3/I9705EN/i9705en.pdf

Policy and normative developments since the last COFI (2016)

• Multi-donor capacity building programme to facilitate implementation

of the Port States Measures Agreement, in force since June 2016

• Information System of the Global Record for Fishing Vessels,

Refrigerated Transport Vessels and Supply Vessels (Global Record)

launched in April 2017

• Voluntary Guidelines on the Marking of Fishing Gear, agreed by

countries in February 2018 and endorsed by the FAO COFI in July 2018

• FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Catch Documentation Schemes (CDS)

were approved by countries in June 2017

• International FAO conference on Tenure and User Rights in fisheries,

Korea, Sep 2018

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