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OECD advises on sustainable fisheries resource management and analyses policy and economics for the fish sector. Our key fisheries projects include:
Aquaculture | Certification | Climate change and fisheries
Economics of rebuilding fisheries | Globalisation and fisheries
Publications include:
» Multilingual Dictionary of Fish and Fish Products
» Review of Fisheries in OECD Countries: Policies and Statistics
» Fisheries: While Stocks Last?
» Fish chapter of OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2011-2020
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05-Oct-2011
Public authorities and private operators in the fisheries and aquaculture sector should agree on a definition of sustainable production, which can enhance the credibility of labels and certification, provide transparency, and enable consumers to make informed choices when they buy seafood.
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09-Aug-2011
Fish prices and consumption will rise over the medium term, according to the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2011-2020. Global fish production will continue to be mainly driven by aquaculture.
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01-Jul-2011
How should we manage fisheries, forestry and other 'common pool' resources, where one person's use of them means less is available for others? Nobel Prize-winning economist Elinor Ostrom explains why we must change the way we think about managing our natural resources.
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16-Sep-2011
The Co-operative Research Programme (CRP)'s Call for Applications for funding international conferences (such as workshops, congresses and symposia) and research fellowship grants in 2012 has now closed.
Thank you to everyone who has applied.
Our Call for Applications for funding in 2013 will be open in March 2012.
The CRP programme supports work on sustainable use of natural resources in agriculture, fisheries and food production.
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21-Jun-2011
Iceland should increase the special resource tax on fishing to a level that neither causes financial difficulties in the industry nor destroys the quota system, according to the OECD Economic Survey of Iceland 2011. The government should also progressively reduce its Total Allowable Catches (TACs) from the level compatible with biological sustainability to the level that maximises resource rents where needed and tax away all of this increase in rent.
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