| State of World Marine Fishery Resources |
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| Care needs to be given to the post-harvest handling, processing and transportation of fish in order to avoid spoilage, retain the nutritional value of the fish and avoid costly and debilitating effects of fish-borne illnesses.A first major review of the state of world fishery resources was produced by FAO more than two decades ago and since then the FAO Fisheries Department has been producing periodical updates almost every two years. While primarily intended as background documents for the regular sessions of the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI), they have proven to be most useful as background documents for other international meetings dealing with the conservation and management of marine living resources, as well as to individual fishery scientists and managers looking for a brief but comprehensive review of the state of world fishery resources. |
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| This document should be largely regarded as an update of the 1993 Review of the State of World Marine Fishery Resources (published as FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No. 335) and of its previous update, issued in 1995 as FAO Fisheries Circular No. 884. This review provides information on fish production over an extended time series (1950-1994). |
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| The analysis of this extended time series has led to some interesting findings and general conceptual postulates regarding the general trends and potential of fisheries at global and regional scales. Some preliminary results of the analysis of these trends are provided in the first two sections. A more detailed description of the state of exploitation and management by major regions follows, with a section on special topics of general interest at the end. |
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| Each regional review is split into three main sections: the "Introduction", a "Profile of Catches" and a section on "Resource Status and Management". The "Introduction" describes the key geographical features and key attributes of the physical environment found within a specific FAO statistical area. In the introductory section there is also a summary of the main points of current interest or concern within the FAO statistical area, arising from long-term trends or patterns or recent changes in the fisheries. |
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| The "Profile of Catches" draws on the long-time series of catches on data recently collected into a single database by FAO to give a sense of the historical scale, development and relative importance of the various types of fisheries found within each FAO statistical area. However, the main focus of each regional review is on recent developments within specific fisheries as described in the section on "Resource Status and Management". |
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| The structure of this section within each regional review varies to reflect the most appropriate basis upon which to separate the resources into meaningful components. In certain FAO statistical areas, separation into Exclusive Economic Zonesis used, while in others a distinction is made according to resource type (e.g. demersal, pelagic). In other areas authors have followed the approach used by organization(s) charged with assessing or managing marine resources in that specific area. Wherever possible, the results of stock assessments are used to make quantitative comments on resource status directly. However, in many fisheries, particularly those which have developed recently, such information is not available. In such cases qualitative information may be presented. Additionally, in instances where catches are believed to be indicative of stock status, quantitative catches data may be discussed. The description and analyses of state of exploitation given in these sections make use of the best information currently available to FAO. |
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| For every FAO statistical area, a table containing catch data for each year from 1988 to 1994 and ten-year averages from 1950 to 1989 is given in Section D "Marine Resources Tables". Also contained in these tables are annotations on the state of exploitation of each resource (see the "Notes for all Tables" in section D for definitions). A certain degree of care must be taken in interpreting these annotations because they are given on a species-by-species basis, rather than for individual stocks. It is typically the case that within each FAO Statistical Area the catches of a given species will come from two or more distinct stocks. It is often the case that the state of exploitation of such separate stocks is different. In such instances the "state of exploitation" indicators in the table should be checked against the main narrative within the appropriate "Resource Status and Management" section for further details. Given this distinction between species and individual stocks, it can be seen that the "state of exploitation" notes have limited statistical significance from a fisheries management point of view and are intended as "rule of thumb" indicators only. It should also be noted that, while FAO believes that the principal marine species which are, or have been, the subject of exploitation are represented in the tables, the majority of species which contribute to many marine fisheries in lesser quantities are not included. |
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| | | Title | Northeast Pacific Marine Resources
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| Description | test | | Keywords | FIGIS | |
| Content Language(s) | English | |
| Web Address | http://www.oceansatlas.c ... 00301.htm | |
| Type of Document | Paper: Working paper | | Document Status | Finished | |
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| Publication Date | June 2000 | |
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