Regional Review on Status and Trends in Aquaculture Development in Asia-Pacific - 2010
This review covers the vast Asia-Pacific region comprising Oceania, South, Southeast, East and Central Asia. In 2008, the region produced 92.5 percent of the world¿s total aquaculture production by volume but also consumed 70 percent of its own production. It should produce an additional 30¿40 million tonnes more by 2050 to maintain the current consumption in the region at 29 kg a year per person. From past performance, it is seen to be capable of doing so, but will have to resolve a range of pr oductivity, environmental, social and market access issues. The status of aquaculture production, its stage of development and the relative importance of each issue are unsurprisingly diverse across the many countries and territories. The outstanding regional characteristics are the dominance (except in Central Asia) of small-scale mostly commercially oriented farms, the dominance of cultured freshwater species in number and output and, as a recent FAO survey reveals, the low productivity of l abour and the low employment multiplier of aquaculture in general, except in Oceania. These are circumscribed by the diminishing availability of land and freshwater, climate change and globalization of trade. To cope, farmers in the region will have to become more efficient, environmentally and socially responsible and competitive. The governance of the sector has set them towards the proper direction to acquire these capacities; its main features are the increasing use of market-based incenti ves and the adoption by farmers of voluntary governance mechanisms that include better management practices (BMPs) and codes of conduct (CoCs), bolstered by their association. Guided by progressive policies and regulations, these have shown that they can stimulate higher production, enable better returns, induce responsible farming practices, and produce higher quality and safer aquatic products. This, in capsule, is the major lesson from the region¿s recent history of aquaculture development. The challenge is to widely promote, adopt and sustain it in practice.
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| Format: | Book (series) biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/I2311E http://www.fao.org/3/a-i2311e.pdf |
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