Fisheries and aquaculture face the difficult challenge of a fast-growing demand, at a time when the majority of fish stocks are overexploited and the quality of water (fresh water or sea water) is increasingly degrading (pollution with plastic and many other contaminants).
17 December 2020 – WTO: deadlock in the negotiations for reducing subsidies encouraging overfishing – Launched in Doha in 2001, relaunched following the approval of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, the negotiations on these subsidies are in a deadlock, while fishing stocks continue being depleted. [read]
17 August 2018 – Pervasive plastic: from food in plastic to plastic in food – For decades, our food has been increasingly contained in plastic; now it is plastic that is pervasively contained in our food… and, consequently, it will soon be more and more present in our body. [read]
11 August 2018 – Fisheries and aquaculture in troubled waters – Despite an outstanding performance of aquaculture, overfishing, environmental impact, as well as serious threats on the quality of products offered to consumers make it that the future of the fisheries and aquaculture sector is uncertain. [read]