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Fisheries and aquaculture contribute significantly to food security and livelihoods. Fish provides essential nutrition for 3 billion people and at least 50% of animal protein and minerals to 400 million people from the poorest countries. [41] This food security is threatened by climate change and the increasing world population.
Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing poses a global challenge and has significant economic and environmental repercussions. [5] The impact of IUU fishing includes economic losses, job losses, scarcity, price distortion, food insecurity and unfair competition, [6] together with the depletion of fish populations and damages to the marine habitat. [7]
A fishery is socially sustainable if the fishery ecosystem maintains the ability to deliver products the society can use. Major species shifts within the ecosystem could be acceptable as long as the flow of such products continues. [2] Humans have been operating such regimes for thousands of years, transforming many ecosystems, depleting or ...
This shows an obstacle for mitigating unsustainable fishing methods, which is influenced by a social-ecological trade off. [38] In developing regions where communities are classified as low-income, fisheries are a means of both food security and income, [39] which are threatened by the enforcement of regulations and management. [38]
Food fish supply will increase in all regions, while per capita fish consumption is expected to decline in Africa, which raises concerns in terms of food security. Trade in fish and fish products is expected to increase more slowly than in the past decade, but the share of fish production that is exported is projected to remain stable.
Food security is the state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. The availability of food for people of any class and state, gender or religion is another element of food security. Similarly, household food security is considered to exist when all the members of a family, at all times, have access to ...
The Nile perch is a fish of substantial economic and food-security importance in East Africa. [2] Originally described as Labrus niloticus, among the marine wrasses , the species has also been referred to as Centropomus niloticus .
Artisanal fishing is critically important for not only food, but for jobs, income, nutrition, food security, sustainable livelihoods, and poverty alleviation as well. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Artisanal fisheries are the predominant form of fisheries in "tropical developing countries" such as Nigeria.