The Food and Agriculture Organization’s director-general Jose Graziano called for urgent action to address climate change during the opening of the world’s only inter-governmental forum on fisheries and aquaculture.
He described it as a threat to sustainable fisheries and fish stocks, which is a topic likely to get much more play this week during the FAO’s Committee on Fisheries (COFI) 9-13 June session this week.
Saying that fisheries and aquaculture make a “central contribution to food security and nutrition,” Graziano added that sustainable development in the world’s island and coastal states was especially dependent on the “vitality of oceans and fish stocks.”
“Overfishing, pollution and climate change are putting this vitality at risk. The impacts are already evident. And the world’s poor, in rural and coastal areas, are among the most affected,” he said…
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