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Fisheries and Aquaculture in Bangladesh and potential cooperation with FAO
1. International Workshop on Blue Economy
Dhaka, Bangladesh
1-2 September 2014
Fisheries and Aquaculture in Bangladesh
and potential cooperation with FAO
http://www.fao.org/fishery/en
http://www.slideshare.net/FAOoftheUN/fisheries-and-aquaculture-in-bangladesh-and-potential-
cooperation-with-fao
Árni M. Mathiesen
Assistant Director-General
Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, FAO
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2. Importance of Fisheries and Aquaculture
in the World
• A major sector for food security and nutrition
– Producing 158 million tons of fish in 2012
– Providing 16.7% of animal protein intakes
• Providing job opportunities for 58 million
people, 0.9% of the world population
• Supporting livelihoods of 10-12% of the world
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population
• The most traded agricultural commodity with
a global export value of USD129.8 billion in
2011
• An integral part of the culture and life of local
people
3. The Great Importance of Fisheries and
Aquaculture in Bangladesh
• A major source of food and nutrition
– Producing 3.3 million tons of food fish in 2012
– Providing 56% of animal protein intakes (16.7%
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world average)
• Contributing 4.6% of its national GDP
• Supporting the livelihoods of 13 million people
• Producing 5.1% of the country’s foreign exchange
earnings
• To many, fish and fisheries are their tradition and a
integral part of life
• Rich water resource – one ha water area per 20
persons (one of the highest in the world)
4. Fisheries and Aquaculture in Bangladesh
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1.5
1
0.5
3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
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• Total production at 3.3 million
tons in 2012
• Capture fishery and
aquaculture were neck and
neck in 2012
• Capture fishery had a
significant drop in production
over last few years
• Aquaculture experienced a
rapid development since 1992,
increasing by ~5 times
• Inland waters always produced
more than marine waters, 3.5
times in 2012
0
1950 1970 1990 2010
Production (million t)
Aquaculture Capture fishery
0
1950 1970 1990 2010
Production (million t)
Inland waters Marine areas
5. The Need and Potential to Strengthen Fisheries
and Aquaculture in Bangladesh
• The needs
Erasing poverty (listed as a LIFD country in 2014)
Increasing food security (17% of the population are
undernourished, 5% higher than world average, FAO 2014)
Fish is a major source of animal protein (56% -
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more than 3 times the world average)
Overfishing and environmental pressure from
aquaculture
• The potential
Rich fresh water resource with many large rivers
The momentum of the fast increasing
aquaculture (by 160% over last decade)
Sustainably managing wild fisheries & aquaculture
6. FAO’s Role in Fisheries and Aquaculture at
Various Levels
• A major driver for international instruments and norms: UNCLOS,
UN Fish Stocks Agreement, FAO Code of Conduct, Port State Agreement, etc.
• Providing technical support and policy guidance to IGOs and
member States on issues related to fisheries and aquaculture
• Global monitoring on fisheries, aquaculture, fishing industry,
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and international trade
• Implementing regional field projects: Nansen project, the GEF-ABNJ
project, the Bay of Bengal LME project, Canary Current LME project, etc.
• Working with States on a whole range of issues in fisheries and
aquaculture through its network and technical cooperation
projects
7. FAO’s Blue Growth Initiative
The Global Initiative is to support:
• Food Security,
• Poverty Alleviation, and
• Sustainable Management of Aquatic Resources
Its basic principles:
• Sustainable production
• Protection of biodiversity and ecosystems
• Efficient use of resources and energy
• Harmonization of social and economic development
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with the environment
8. FAO’s Blue Growth Initiative: 4 Paths
• Capture fisheries
• Aquaculture
• Ecosystem services contributing
to livelihoods and economy
• Trade/markets/post harvest and
social support
Countries for pilot implementation
Indonesia, Morocco, Algeria, Bangladesh + +
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9. What has FAO been doing in Bangladesh and
the Region?
• The RV Dr. Fridtjof Nansen surveyed Myanmar and
Bangladesh waters in 1979 and 1980
• Another survey was done in Myanmar waters
November-December 2013 (Myanmar requested in
2014 another survey in near future)
• The Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem Project,
funded by GEF (USD 31 million over 5 years)
• Community-based Climate Resilient Fisheries &
Aquaculture Development in Bangladesh, PIF
accepted by GEF (USD 5.4 million)
• Country specific projects such as “Support to Safety
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at Sea for Small-scale Fisheries”
• Aquaculture feed/broodstock/quality analysis
10. Areas for Potential Cooperation with FAO
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• Capture fisheries
– Rebuilding overfished stocks
– Stopping IUU fishing
– Reducing post-harvest losses
– Increasing added values along the value chain
• Aquaculture
– High production technics
– Disease control and prevention
– Development of new feeds/quality assurance
– Genetic diversity issues
• Climate change
– Strengthening knowledge and awareness of adverse impacts
– Enhancing local adaptive capacity to climate change
– Promotion of best practices through lessons learned,
monitoring and evaluation.
13. Will address:
• Declining fish availability
• Changing species composition
• Too many juvenile fish in catches
• Changes in marine biodiversity
• Loss and degradation of mangrove, seagrass and
coral reef
• Sewage entering coastal waters
• Marine litter
• Increasing nutrients levels in coast al waters
• Poor living and working conditions of fishing
communities
• Ability of coastal communities to participate and
benefit from sustainable development practices
• Vulnerability of coastal communities to natural
hazards and climate change
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15. The SAP will strengthen:
• Institutional arrangements, legal
and policy reforms
• Management capacity
• Knowledge, awareness and
communication
• Human capacity development
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16. FAO role/leadership Fisheries:
• Safety at Sea and other labour
aspects of fishing
• Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries
• Marine Protected Area management
• Promoting the Small Scale Fisheries
Guidelines
• National plans of actions: IUU,
sharks, others.
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17. Total allowable
catch or
Equivalent
decision
Enforcement &
Compliance
Pentagram 1:
Fisheries Governance
Fisheries Management
Catch statistics,
Fleet information
TAC-setting
Rules
Stock
Assessment
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18. Pentagram 2:
Fisheries Value
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Post-harvest
Transport & Storage
Distribution
Marketing
Harvest Consumption
The first of these pentagrams is the 5 things we have to do as part of fisheries governance, namely:
Carrying out some form of Stock assessment.
Making a Total allowable catch or some equivalent decision on the basis of some rules that translate our science into catch.
Using this science as the basis for designing our fisheries management system,
Implementing some Enforcement & compliance, and
Collecting catch statistics and fleet information.
The first of these pentagrams is the 5 things we have to do as part of fisheries governance, namely:
Carrying out some form of Stock assessment.
Making a Total allowable catch or some equivalent decision on the basis of some rules that translate our science into catch.
Using this science as the basis for designing our fisheries management system,
Implementing some Enforcement & compliance, and
Collecting catch statistics and fleet information.