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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Thursday, 13 June 2019 03:35

Striped catfish

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FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Info

 Link Striped catfish

Scientific Name:
Pangasianodon hypophthalmus

Authority:
(Sauvage 1878)

Common Name:
Striped catfish

Friday, 24 February 2017 05:52

Pacific bluefin tuna

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This FAO image is for Thunnus thynnus (Atlantic bluefin tuna), a species that is difficult to distinguish from T. orientalis by external features alone.

 

This FAO image is for Thunnus thynnus (Atlantic bluefin tuna), a species that is difficult to distinguish from T. orientalis by external features alone (see BIOLOGY).

Scientific Name:
Thunnus orientalis

Authority:
Temminck & Schlegel 1844

Common Name:
Pacific bluefin tuna

Monday, 30 September 2013 16:56

Species

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Crustaceans (In preparation)


Molluscs (In preparation)


Echinoderms (In preparation)


Plants (In preparation)

 

 
Sunday, 18 August 2013 16:02

Skipjack Tuna

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Scientific Name:
Katsuwonus pelamis

Authority:
Linnaeus 1758

Common Name:
Skipjack Tuna

Thursday, 10 April 2014 18:36

Yellowfin Tuna

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http://www.fao.org/fishery/species/2497/en

Scientific Name:
Thunnus albacares

Authority:
Bonnaterre 1788

Common Name:
Yellowfin Tuna

Sunday, 29 November 2015 23:34

Longtail Tuna

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Scientific Name:
Thunnus tonggol

Authority:
Bleeker 1851

Common Name:
Longtail Tuna

Monday, 14 April 2014 07:32

Bigeye Tuna

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Scientific Name:
Thunnus obesus

Authority:
Lowe, 1839

Common Name:
Bigeye Tuna

Saturday, 21 February 2015 05:55

Albacore Tuna

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Scientific Name:
Thunnus alalunga

Authority:
Bonnaterre 1788

Common Name:
Albacore Tuna