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FAO Major Fishing Areas. The defined areas are: [2] Area 18: the Arctic Ocean. Area 21: the Northwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean. Area 27: the Northeastern part of the Atlantic Ocean. Area 31: the Western part of the Atlantic Ocean. Area 34: the Eastern Central part of the Atlantic Ocean. Area 37: the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.
It benefits also of functionalities from the Fisheries Global Information System (FIGIS) implemented by FAO. The information is presented in synthesized fact sheets and state of resource summaries which include images, maps of geographical distribution, general biological and habitat characteristics, scientific assessment results, management ...
World capture fisheries and aquaculture production by species group, from FAO's Statistical Yearbook 2021 [1]. The global commercial production for human use of fish and other aquatic organisms occurs in two ways: they are either captured wild by commercial fishing or they are cultivated and harvested using aquacultural and farming techniques.
The production was estimated to be 217,559 tonnes in 2008 (wet weight) which is equivalent to more than 10 billion sheets of dried gim, making South Korea the world's largest exporter of gim. [3] [6] South Korea was a pioneer of selective seaweed breeding, with government-supported research beginning in the 1980s and continuing to the present ...
Years 2014–2016 is 100. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations[note 1] (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its Latin motto, fiat panis, translates to "let there be bread".
The FAO Country Profiles is a multilingual [1] web portal that repackages the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) information archive on its global activities in agriculture and food security in a single area and catalogues it exclusively by country and thematic areas.
Following is a sortable table of the world fisheries' harvest of aquatic plants for 2005. The tonnage from capture and aquaculture is listed by country. Countries whose total harvest was less than 100,000 tons are not included.
Tapiador DD, Henderson HF, Delmendo MN and Tsutsui H (1979) Freshwater fisheries and aquaculture in China FAO: Fisheries Technical Paper 168, Rome. ISBN 92-5-100328-9 . Weimin Miao W and Xinhua Yuan X (2007) "The Carp Farming Industry in China - An Overview" In Leung P, Cheng-Sheng Lee C and O'Bryen PJ (Eds.) (2007) Species and System Selection ...