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Aquaculture 2018
S e p t e m b e r 2 0 - 2 1 , 2 0 1 8
L i s b o n , P o r t u g a l
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Journal of
ISSN: 1307-234X
E u r o p e a n S u mm i t o n
Aquaculture, Fisheries
and Horticulture
The future of the fisheries is burdened by political trends, ruling economic
and social factors. The development of fisheries is in the midst of the need
to feed a growing human population and the consequences of the depletion
of exploited stocks, motivated by economic interests and constrained by their
finite biomass. Economic factors, social factors and the dynamics of fisheries
face each other, multiple interacting problems, but they all have their own
dynamics and complicate the possibility of finding isolated and independent
solutions. Aquaculture seems to offer a light of hope for mankind by helping
to solve the problem of producing food from the sea. However, this is not a
permanent solution. There are certain trends in fishery development which in
practice, may contribute to a future that can help fisheries to become truly
sustainable, such as reduction of discharges, gradual reduction of large
vessels, improvement of management measures, increased involvement
participation of the, eco-labeling of fishery products, reduction of illegal
fishing, relative price stability and certification of many fisheries, among
others. All these factors open a window of hope that allows us to expect that
the sustainability of fishing can become a reality, rather than a utopia. It is
remarkable to realize that the maximum yield of the world oceans approaches
very close to 100 M mt and the biomass of all the exploited stocks is near to
200 Mmt. Current yield and stock biomass are nearly 40% below their maxima.
Assessment of the main world fisheries suggest that nearly 45 M mt, could be
obtained additionally by increasing mesh opening.
Biography
Ernesto A Chavez, Ph D (1978) is a Professor of the Marine
Sciences Research Centre in La Paz, Mexico. His interests
include Bio-Economic Assessment of Fisheries, Impact of
Climate on Fisheries, Coral Reef Ecology. He is Teacher of the
courses Fisheries Management and Coral Reef Ecology at his
research Centre. He has been Adviser of 25 MSc thesis, BSc, 16
at the MSc Program and 5 at PhD level. He has led 17 research
projects and has collaborated on another 16. He has published
more than 150 scientific papers, including the Co-edition of
a book on the coral reefs of the south Gulf of Mexico (2007),
translated into Spanish (2010).
The world fisheries do they have any future?
Ernesto A Chavez
Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Mexico
Ernesto A Chavez, Journal of Volume:12
DOI: 10.21767/1307-234X-C1-002