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FAO: Stable world fish catchesMarch 5 2007 FAO released its latest State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture report (SOFIA). Total catch and aquaculture production reached a record high of about 106 million tonnes of food fish in 2004. The catches have stabilised around 85-95 million tonnes and to percentage of fully exploited fisheries remains in the area around 50%.The report includes a wide range of information on types of catches and aquaculture, continents and countries. Usually only the big picture reaches the headlines. Therefore we present some of the less highlighted information, time series of number of fishers in selected countries. The top ten fish exporters are also shown below. Number of fishers in selected countries.
Source: FAO (2007). The state of world fisheries and aquaculture 2006. Top ten exporters (US$ mill.)
New NOMA cooperation Norway-Vietnam On December 19 2006 the NOMA Programme (Norad's Programme for Master Studies) Board made a provisional allocation of nearly 86 million NOK for bilateral and multilateral Master programmes to be established in the South.
The 17 new NOMA projects include one project initiated by Ola Flaaten (picture) at the MaReMa Centre. The cooperation project will be implemented by the Norwegian College of Fishery Science and University of Fisheries in Vietnam. A new master programme in Fisheries and Aquaculture Management and Economics will be established at the Vietnamese university. More information about the new NOMA projects is found here. Atlantic cod classifies as vulnerable by Red List  The Red List Programme has categorised cod (Gadus morhua) as a vulnerable species, indicating that cod is "facing a high risk of extinction in the wild in the medium-term future".
The Red List is not providing any documentation supporting this point of view apart from one reference to Hutchings et al (2001). The complete reference is The IUCN red list criteria make use of numbers and letters referring to different population properties. In the case of cod the complete red list label is VU A1bd. This indicates that the reduction in cod population size is “based on an observed, estimated, inferred or suspected population size reduction of 50% over the last 10 years or three generations, whichever is the longer, where the causes of the reduction are: clearly reversible AND understood AND ceased, based on (and specifying) any of the following:…..(b) an index of abundance appropriate to the taxon …..(d) actual or potential levels of exploitation “.
The actual history of the Northeast Atlantic cod stock is shown in the figure above. Each layer represents one yearclass. For more information, visit the web site of the ICES Arctic Fisheries Working Group. |
 About MaReMaCentre of Marine Resource Management was
established in 2004 at the Norwegian College of Fishery Science,
University of Tromsø.
The aim of the centre is to promote
research in resource management both nationally and internationally. Special
emphasis is placed on interdisciplinary research and education.
MaReMa has its origins from the Norwegian College of Fishery Science which holds multidisciplinary research groups in the field of resource management. The groups work on topics as resource biology, population dynamics, harvesting technology, fisheries economics, bioeconomics, sociology and planning. Many of the members of MaReMa also have a long track record in interdisciplinary research. The centre has considerable international experience within the areas of resource management and project evaluation. Read more on the MaReMa history here.
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