Welcome remarks made at the opening ceremony of the Global Conference on Aquaculture 2010 by Mr Hiroyuki Konuma, Assistant Director General, Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, FAO.
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Welcome remarks made at the opening ceremony of the Global Conference on Aquaculture 2010 by Professor Sena De Silva, Director General of the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific.
Welcome remarks made at the opening ceremony of the Global Conference on Aquaculture 2010 by Mr Thammarat Wanglee, Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Thailand.
Fisheries and aquaculture contribute significantly to food and nutrition security. About 20 percent per capita intake of animal protein for more than 2.8 billion people is from fish and for over 400 million people fish meets 50% of the requirement for animal protein and minerals. Malnutrition is still the number one killer compared to other diseases. Climate change is likely to increase the frequency and intensity of climate processes.
This keynote presentation elaborates the achievements made in aquaculture globally during the past decade, in keeping with the Bangkok Declaration and Strategy, which brought the aquaculture sector to the current level. It has been recognised that the principles and strategies advocated by the Kyoto Declaration on Aquaculture in 1976, the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries in 1995, and the Bangkok Declaration and Strategy in 2000 have served well the process and goals of aquaculture development.