Fisheries and aquaculture are confronted with continuing problems such as climate change, growing human populations, low income of small scale fishers and fish farmers, and competitive production and trading conditions. People should be confronting and discussing the challenges in order to come up with solutions on how we can respond; and the community should be resilient and adaptive in combatting the challenges. We cannot immediately solve some problems, such as overfishing, illegal fishing, depletion of marine resources, as they have deep root causes, but we are learning how to address them. Governments do their best to manage fishery resources to meet these challenges. Decision makers and the public also need to continually listen to new information so that they are equipped with knowledge for sustaining marine and aquaculture resources and protecting people who depend on them for nutrition, livelihood and business. Research is an important information gathering tool that contributes to policy and decision-making. The Asian Fisheries Society and its partners are taking a lead in making new information accessible through its platform AsiaPacific-FishWatch providing essential information on fish harvested or farmed for food in Asia-Pacific. I am pleased that AsiaPacific-FishWatch gives attention in its profiles and posts to the critical social, economic and market character of the value chains. The Asian Fisheries Society emphasises equally social and economic knowledge and biological, physical and technical knowledge.

Prof. Alice Joan G. Ferrer, PhD, President, Asian Fisheries Society

 
 
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ASIAPACIFIC-FISHWATCH

Compilers

The information on albacore tuna compiled and edited by the following people.

  • Quick Facts: Patricia Kailola, Tarlochan Singh, Victoria Jollands
  • Sustainability: Patricia Kailola, Victoria Jollands, and Tarlochan Singh; Updated Feb 2019 by Victoria Jollands
  • Production: Victoria Jollands, Patricia Kailola, and Tarlochan Singh
  • Supply Chains & Markets: Victoria Jollands, Patricia Kailola, and Tarlochan Singh
  • Environment & Climate: Patricia Kailola, Tarlochan Singh, and Victoria Jollands
  • Biology: Patricia Kailola, Tarlochan Singh

Editing, all pages: Meryl Williams

Information Provided by the Following

  • John Hampton (Secretariat for the Pacific Community - SPC)
  • Johann D. Bell, SPC (Pacific Island consumption patterns, climate change)
  • Lindsay Chapman, SPC (Pacific Island consumption patterns)
  • Simon Hoyle – SPC
  • Peter Williams – SPC
  • Peter Nichols (CSIRO, Australia) nutritional value
  • David Wilson IOTC – Indian Ocean material in Sustainability, Environment and Climate, and Biology profiles
  • FAO – for use of figures
  • Fishbase team, Philippines

Reviewers

Drafts of the presentation were reviewed by the following:

  • David Wilson (IOTC) – Indian Ocean: Sustainability, Environment and Climate, Biology
  • John Hampton (SPC) – Western and Central Pacific Ocean: Sustainability
  • Simon Nicol, (SPC): Environment and Climate, Biology
  • Johann Bell – Sustainability, Environment and Climate, Biology
  • Tony Lewis – Production, Supply Chains & Markets

Photographs and Graphics

  • Gabriel Reygondeau - Institut de Recherche pour le De´veloppement (IRD) – use of figure
  • Secretariat for the Pacific Community
  • Johann Bell (SPC)
  • International Seafood Sustainability Foundation
  • David Itano
  • Food and Agriculture Organization
  • Media Commons

Funding and Support

Funding to prepare the skipjack information was provided by the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (iss-foundation.org) and the Asian Fisheries Society (www.asianfisheriessociety.org).

In-kind support has been provided by the host organizations of those who provided information and reviewed drafts.

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