Transcription of SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES AND RESPONSIBLE AQUACULTURE
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SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES AND RESPONSIBLE AQUACULTURE : A Guide for USAID Staff and Partners June 2013 ABOUT THIS GUIDEGOALThis guide provides basic information on how to design programs to reform capture FISHERIES (also referred to as wild FISHERIES ) and AQUACULTURE sectors to ensure sound and effective development, environmental sustainability, economic profitability, and social responsibility. To achieve these objectives, this document focuses on ways to reduce the threats to biodiversity and ecosystem productivity through improved governance and more integrated planning and management practices. In the face of food insecurity, global climate change, and increasing population pressures, it is imperative that development programs help to maintain ecosystem resilience and the multiple goods and services that ecosystems provide.
to fill that void. Global food security will not be achievable without reversing the decline of fisheries, restoring fisheries productivity, and moving towards more environmentally friendly and responsible aquaculture. There is a need for reform in both fisheries and aquaculture to reduce their environmental and social impacts.
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