At the 5th meeting of the Committee on Aquaculture (CAQ) of FAO's General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 5-7 June 2006) representatives of 11 countries met to review recent trends in the fish farming sector and discuss ways to promote its continued sustainable development.

FAO figures show that the aquaculture sector is of increasing importance as a food production activity, both in the Mediterranean as well as worldwide.

Globally, it generates around US$63 billion of revenues per year and supplies over 35 percent of all fish consumed as food.

In the Mediterranean, aquaculture production stagnated during the 2000-2002 period but then grew by over 10 percent during year 2003 totalising more than 370 thousand tonnes a year, according to FAO. ...more

Documents for the CAQ meeting in Santiago

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