Browsing FAO Community Practices by Subject "Fisheries"

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    • Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries. 

      Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, 2011)
      In recent years, world fisheries have become a market-driven, dynamically developing sector of the food industry and coastal States have striven to take advantage of their new opportunities by investing in modern fishing ...

    • Legal aspects of abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear. 

      Hodgson, Stephen (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and International Maritime Organization, Rome, Italy, 2022)
      The growing quantity of plastic waste in the marine environment, including abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG), is a global problem. A particular feature of ALDFG is the potential for some gears ...

    • A practical guide on safe hookah diving – Diving for sea cucumbers and other marine organisms. 

      Buonfiglio, Giampaolo; Lovatelli, Alessandro (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, 2023)
      The gathering of commercial benthic organisms from the seabed by underwater fishers is a growing activity in many regions in Africa, Asia, Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean. Sea cucumbers are particularly targeted, ...