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FAO Aquaculture e-Bulletin

March 2015

Welcome to this March 2015 edition of the FAO Aquaculture e-bulletin, covering our most recent news, publications, technical workshops and projects for the period October 2014 to March 2015. We hope that this information can be also useful to you in your own aquaculture work. 

This newsletter presents just a selection of what we do and we encourage you to visit our website www.fao.org/fishery/aquaculture to find out more or to contact by e-mail the officers of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department's Aquaculture Branch (FIRA) responsible for the various activities.

http://www.fao.org/figis/shared/assets/images/newsletter/fish_bullet.jpg Highlights

  • Mr Mathiesen (Assistant Director-General, Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of FAO)delivered a presentation on video broadcast in the occasion of the Strategy Meeting for Action on Blue Growth and Food Security, in Saint George’s, Grenada, 11-13 March 2015. See video.
  • The FAO Global Aquaculture Production Statistics database is updated to 2013. The dataset covering 1950-2013 can now be consulted online at www.fao.org/fishery/statistics/global-aquaculture-production/query.
    FishStat J, the data dissemination package can be downloaded at www.fao.org/fishery/statistics/software/fishstatj/en
    Information: X. Zhou 
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  • The questionnaire to assess aquaculture compliance with the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (CCRF) by Member countries has been recently launched through the new interactive web system www.fao.org/fishery/code/codequest. Each member country has received a letter from FI ADG together with specific credentials to be able to produce one national report. The results of this global assessment of aquaculture compliance with the Code will be presented to the VIII session of the COFI Sub-Committee on Aquaculture in Brazil in October 2015.
    Information: D. Soto 
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  • FAO fielded an Emergency Disease Investigation Mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to investigate a suspected outbreak of Epizootic ulcerative syndrome from 13-19 March 2015. The field mission team was consisted of Drs Bernard Mudenda Hang’ombe (Zambia), David Huchzermeyer (South Africa), and Leopold Mulumba (DRC). 
    Information: M. Reantaso 
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http://www.fao.org/figis/shared/assets/images/newsletter/fish_bullet.jpg Publications

http://www.fao.org/figis/shared/assets/images/newsletter/fish_bullet.jpg Web-based products

http://www.fao.org/figis/shared/assets/images/newsletter/fish_bullet.jpg Projects

http://www.fao.org/figis/shared/assets/images/newsletter/fish_bullet.jpg Aquaculture events (2014)

 

http://www.fao.org/figis/shared/assets/images/newsletter/fish_bullet.jpg EU funded projects

 

http://www.fao.org/figis/shared/assets/images/newsletter/fish_bullet.jpg Upcoming Aquaculture and Aquaculture-related Events (2015)

 

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