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The potential of African inland fisheries is largely underestimated. However, fully harnessing its potential is essential to meet the continent’s growing demand for food of high nutritional value...

Highlights: Modelling of fish supply and demand to 2030. Capture fish production expected to be stagnant in the future. Different scenarios for future aquaculture production. Aquaculture essential...

With 17,504 islands, 108,000 kilometers of coastline, and three-quarters of its territory at sea, Indonesia’s prosperity is deeply entwined with its oceans. Yet the future for Indonesia’s oceans, like those...

Portugal is one of the top three European suppliers of octopus, making this fishery an important source of income for many fishers on the Algarve coast. Octopus fishery is excluded from EU...

Chapter 3 focuses on the blue economy, in particular on the fisheries and aquaculture sector. FULLY REALIZING THE POTENTIAL OF THE BLUE ECONOMY Madagascar has the longest coastline in Africa...

Like much of the world, Asia and the Pacific is in the midst of the fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, dominated by Omicron variant – few months following the Delta variant driven forth...

India is a growing global power with consistent high economic and technological growth. However, the share of agriculture in the gross domestic product is declining. Reduced input-use efficiency of the factors...

The contribution of agriculture in India’s national gross value added (GVA) is only about 17%. However, its role in human wellbeing is vital considering its critical...

Key Messages The ocean plays an important role in global food provision and has the potential to play a much more significant role through increased mariculture (i.e...

This study used ecological and socioecological simulation modelling to forecast the impacts of climate change in Africa on fish stocks and the fisheries and fishing communities that depend on them, by 2050 and 2100...