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Roundup<\/strong><\/p>\n NEWS, EVENTS, BRIEFINGS AND MORE…<\/strong><\/p>\n DEEP-SEA TRAWLING<\/p>\n The destructive nature of deep-sea trawling (infographic)<\/strong><\/p>\n While some may celebrate World Fisheries Day on November 21, at One Green Planet, we feel that it’s a great time to really evaluate the toll that fishing takes on the environment.<\/p>\n It is estimated that over 70 per cent of all marine fisheries have been exploited, overexploited or have fully collapsed, and 90 per cent of vital ocean apex predators have disappeared.<\/p>\n There are a number of reasons that these saddening statistics exist. They include the death of animals caught in bycatch, fishery mismanagement, overfishing, unregulated fishing and habitat destruction.<\/p>\n Aside from shark finning, the dolphin slaughters in Peru and Japan, and \u0093scientific whaling (as the Japanese government insists it is, but we all know better), deep-sea trawling has one of the most destructive effects on the marine ecosystem.<\/p>\n Check out the infographic at http:\/\/www.onegreenplanet.org\/animalsandnature\/the-destructive-nature-of-deep-sea-trawling-infographic\/.<\/a><\/p>\n It offers an easy-to-understand overview of the damaging effects of this fishing practice.<\/p>\n The infographic was originally posted on Penelope Bagieu’s blog and translated by Le Huffington Post.<\/p>\n The graphic was then subsequently published in its translated version on The Huffington Post.<\/p>\n Source: One Green Planet<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n FRESHWATER SPECIES<\/p>\n Fish that lay eggs out of the water<\/strong><\/p>\n The fish Copella arnoldi<\/em> is commonly called the splash tetra or splashing tetra, due to its unique reproductive behavior. That is, it lays its eggs outside water. It is one of few species of fish in the world known to do so.<\/p>\n When a male is ready to mate, it takes up position in the water below an overhanging leaf. It does a little display, and if a female is interested, she will sidle up to him. Then, they will leap out of the water together. They latch unto the underside of a leaf with their fins.<\/p>\n The female releases six to eight eggs and the male quickly fertilizes them, before they fall back into the water. The pair repeat this process several times until they have deposited about 200 eggs onto the leaf.<\/p>\n The male then hides in aquatic vegetation near the leaf, where he keeps an eye on the eggs.<\/p>\n He defends the territory and periodically splashes the eggs with his tail fin (which is asymmetrical, most likely for this purpose) to keep them moist.<\/p>\n When the fry hatch, after about 48 hours, they fall into the water, where they hide as best they can.<\/p>\n Splash tetra live in slow-moving tributaries of the Amazon and other large South American rivers, especially in Guyana and Venezuela.<\/p>\n The fish grow to a length of about 2.7 in (7 cm) and have a life expectancy of about three years.<\/p>\n Source: National Geographic<\/em> (http:\/\/newswatch.nationalgeographic.com\/2013\/09\/27\/fish-that-lay-eggs-out-of-the-water-freshwater-species-of-the-week\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE<\/p>\n ATDEPA: The Tunisian Association for the Development of Artisanal Fisheries<\/strong><\/p>\n The Tunisian Association for the Development of Artisanal Fisheries (ATDEPA) is a civil society organization that brings together fisheries officials, scientific researchers and artisanal fishers. It was created in 2011 as a non-profit development association under Tunisian law. It is, therefore, not so much an organization of fishers, but, rather, an organization for fishers. ATDEPA conducts studies, organizes workshops, undertakes training, raises awareness and advocates for responsible fishing practices, amongst other activities.<\/p>\n The aim of ATDEPA is to improve the sustainable livelihoods of artisanal fishing communities, based on respect for the ecosystems that they exploit. ATDEPA also seeks to engage positively with fishing communities to help them improve their activities, notably through fisheries management and coastal-zone development.<\/p>\n ATDEPA’s mission is to engage in defining fisheries policy in ways that include: the responsible participation of artisanal fishers in the sustainable management of coastal ecosystems on which their livelihoods depend; and further understanding the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the fishery system so as to identify approaches to fisheries management relevant to the Tunisian context.<\/p>\n In Tunisia, artisanal fishing is seen as a semi-subsistence activity, employing traditional fishing methods and keeping within environmental limits. The government has provided both legal and financial frameworks to develop the sector into a semi-industrial sector. Today, artisanal fishing employs 70 per cent of the people active in fishing around 42,000 peopleand lands around 50 per cent of the catch by value. Women comprise around three per cent of the workforce in fishing, mainly as shellfish collectors.<\/p>\n ATDEPA is a partner in a number of local, regional and international initiatives. These include an innovative project to promote sustainable fishery products from the Cap Negto-Cap Serrat protected coastal and marine area, financed within the framework of the Italy-Tunisia IEVP CT technical co-operation transboundary partnership programme, involving regions of Sicily and Tunisia.<\/p>\n ATDEPA is also a partner in an initiative to establish a North African platform for associations and organizations of professionals in the agriculture and artisanal fisheries sectors. This initiative is supported by the Regional North African programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and by the WWF North African Office, and was launched in September 2013.<\/p>\n ATDEPA is a member of the African Confederation of Professional Organizations of Artisanal Fishers (CAOPA) and the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fishworkers (WFF). The organization has participated in various West and North African regional meetings, and joined the WFF delegation to the intergovernmental Technical Consultations organized by FAO to negotiate content and text for the International Guidelines to Secure Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the context of food security and poverty elimination.<\/p>\n For more information (in French): http:\/\/artisanalfishing.org.tn\/presentation\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n FISHERIES STATISTICS<\/p>\n Global Aquaculture Production Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n According to data newly released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), world aquaculture production of food fish reached 62.7 mn tonnes in 2011, up by 6.2 per cent from 59 mn tonnes in 2010. The estimated value of farmed food fish is US$130 bn. Farmed aquatic algae production in 2011 was 21 mn tonnes, worth $5.5 bn. The 2010 world production level in the new data release is lower than in the previous data release, due largely to the downward adjustment of 2010 production by India, the world’s second-largest aquaculture producer. Aquaculture contributed 40.1 per cent to the world total fish production and almost all the seaweed production (see Table 1).<\/p>\n In 2011, Thailand and Japan suffered from great losses caused by catastrophic natural disasters. Thai aquaculture production dropped by 0.28 mn tonnes (22 per cent) from its 2010 level, and Japan by 0.16 mn tonnes (23 per cent). A few other global major producers, such as Myanmar, the United States (US) and Malaysia, and regional major producers, such as Uganda, also experienced negative growth in aquaculture output in 2011 due to various reasons. But the majority of producing countries and regions enjoyed positive growth in aquaculture production in 2011.<\/p>\n Globally, the status of statistics reporting to FAO on aquaculture is a mixed picture. While many members continued to improve national statistics collection and reporting, the number of non-reporting countries increased among European Union members, and a few major producers continued to ignore their data reporting obligation. The nature of 2011 aquaculture data in the new release are of four major types:<\/p>\n \u0095 reported by national authorities in responding to FAO data questionnaires;<\/p>\n \u0095 retrieved (with statistics details) from government sources for the non-reporting or incomplete-reporting countries;<\/p>\n \u0095 retrieved (with total production without breakdown details) from government sources, and estimated by FAO for splitting to the major cultured species or species groups using additional information, for the non-reporting countries; and<\/p>\n \u0095 estimated, using information available from other sources, for non-reporting countries.<\/p>\n In 2011, the top 20 producers who produced 95 per cent of world farmed food fish are China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Norway, Thailand, Egypt, Chile, Myanmar, Philippines, Brazil, Japan, Korea (RO), US, Taiwan (POC), Ecuador, Malaysia, Spain and Iran. The improvement in the ranking position of Norway, Chile and Brazil among the top producers is noteworthy.<\/p>\n The number of cultured species registered as \u0093species items in the new data release further increased from 541 in 2010 to 559. They include 346 fin fishes, 62 crustaceans, 102 molluscs, six amphibians and reptiles, 34 aquatic algae and nine other aquatic invertebrates. Such an increase is more the result of data quality improvement than species diversification at the real production level.<\/p>\n The changes in world aquaculture production during 1970-2011 are summarized broadly in Table 2 below.<\/p>\n Excerpts from Global Aquaculture Production Statistics for 2011<\/em>. FAO<\/p>\n Table 1: Contribution of aquaculture to the world total fish production* (mn tonnes, excluding aquatic plants)<\/strong><\/p>\n
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