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FAO report underlines the vital role small-scale fisheries play in ensuring global food security and sustainable development. 

Document provides guidance to implement or improve early warning systems for harmful algal blooms that threaten seafood and public health.  

The plan for the sustainable growth of mangrove oyster production in The Gambia will benefit women producers and stabilize oyster stocks. 

One hundred States endorse FAO Agreement on Port State Measures, marking a new milestone in the global fight against IUU fishing. 

The seafood industry and NGOs are supporting a call by the FAO to create a mechanism to record and reduce fisher mortalities. 

Crecimiento Azul es una parte integral del desarrollo global sostenible y de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación, ya que se relacionan con la conservación de los recursos marinos. 

Blue Growth is as an integral part of sustainable global development and the Food and Agriculture Organization's Sustainable Development Goals as they relate to conservation of marine resources. 

El informe bienal más reciente de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación subraya la importancia creciente que tiene la acuacultura, ya que en 2016 se alcanzaron nuevos récords para la producción y el consumo mundiales de productos del mar. 

The most recent biennial report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations stresses the growing importance that aquaculture has as new records for global seafood production and consumption were reached in 2016. 

Experience in China, the world’s largest tilapia farming country, is used to develop and calibrate a bio-economic model of intensive tilapia pond culture. It is used to simulate the impacts of climate, technical and/or economic factors on farming. 

La encuesta de producción de GOAL 2017 para la producción mundial de camarón cultivado mostró una recuperación menor para 2016, y se espera que la producción se fortalezca hasta 2019, cuando la producción cultivada global debería alcanzar 4.82 millones de toneladas métricas (MMT), a menos que haya problemas con las principales enfermedades de camarón. 

The GOAL 2017 production survey for global shrimp farming production showed a minor recovery for 2016, with production expected to strengthen through 2019, when global farmed production should reach 4.82 million metric tons (MMT), barring major shrimp disease issues. 

Much work is needed to properly address and prepare for the potential impacts of climate change, and to continue increasing the contribution of seafood production to feed a growing human population. 

Artemia, microscopic brine shrimp used as feed in hatcheries, are the unsung heroes of aquaculture. Experts say artemia is still inspiring innovation more than 50 years after initial commercialization. These creatures are much more than Sea-Monkeys. 

Writing from Rome at the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization’s COFI 32 conference, Advocate contributor Roy Palmer solicits input on how to promote the health benefits of seafood consumption worldwide.