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Genetic technologies to improve fish production

Traditional and modern breeding techniques needed to increase food production in aquaculture

Bangkok, Thailand, 28 Jan 2013 -- Fisheries experts from more than 13 countries opened the first of two consultations today that could herald new ways of reducing hunger and poverty by cataloguing and improving aquatic genetic resources for food and agriculture. Most farmed fish have not been domesticated the way that farmed crops and livestock have been, so farmed fish remain very similar to their wild relatives. The meeting will consider the benefits of genetic improvement by using traditional breeding techniques as well as modern genetic technologies to increase growth rates, reduce inputs and improve the cost-effectiveness of aquaculture.

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Report of the Fourth FAO Expert Advisory Panel for the Assessment of Proposals to Amend Appendices I and II of CITES Concerning Commercially-exploited Aquatic Species

The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report of the Fourth FAO Expert Advisory Panel for the assessment of proposals to amend Appendices I and II of CITES concerning commercially-exploited aquatic species is now available. The Panel, which met in December 2012, was convened in response to the agreement by the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) for an expert advisory panel for assessing relevant proposals to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Panel for future CITES Conference of the Parties.

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Harmonizing fisheries information systems in the South West Indian Ocean region

A workshop to develop an action plan towards the creation of a Regional Information System for the South West Indian Ocean region agreed to: creating a prototype harmonized information system, a working methodology and a road map to present both the prototype together with sustainability assessment considerations to regional decision-makers in 2013. The workshop report is now available online.

The workshop was organized in collaboration with SmartFish.

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