This document discusses sustainable development of fisheries. It defines sustainable development as meeting present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs. The FAO defines sustainable fisheries as managing natural resources and technological changes to ensure satisfying human needs now and in the future. Objectives include food security, profitable industries, long-term viability of resources, and ecosystem health. Unsustainable fisheries result from overcapacity, destructive practices, pollution and more. Solutions involve awareness, integration with coastal management, controlling land and access, stronger institutions, stakeholder participation, information sharing, socioeconomic understanding, enforcement, adapting to change, and community commitment.

1. SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT OF
FISHERIES
Submitted by:
Hitha.R, II sem, SIF, CUSAT

2. Sustainable Development
 “development which meets the needs of the
present generation without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their own
needs”
 A pattern of resource use that aims to meet
human needs while preserving the
environment so that these needs can be met
not only by the present, but also for generation
to come .

3. FAO Definition
The management and conservation of natural
resource base, and the orientation of technical
and institutional change in such a manner as
to ensure the attainment and continued
satisfaction of human needs for present and
future generations

4. objectives
 ensuring food security
 creating competitive and profitable fisheries
harvesting and processing activities;
 ensuring the long-term viability of the resource
 catering for the well-being of a fishery
workforce within a wider community and
broader economic context
 maintaining the health and integrity of marine
ecosystems

5. Why Unsustainable ???
 Overcapacity
 Unsustainable fishing methods
 Unselective fishing practices and gear
 Bycatch / discards and bottom trawling
 Pollution
 Uneconomic Operations etc….

6. Sustainability Issues
 Ecological
 Economic
 Social or Institutional
 Technological
 Other Versions

7. Ecological Issues
 Biological Overfishing
 Environmental Pollution
 Habitat Destruction
 Biodiversity Loss
 Climate Change

8. Economic Issues
 Stagnation in Production
 Over Capitalisation
 Uneconomic Operations
 Unstable Global Market

9. Social and Institutional Issues
 Poor Housing, Health and Sanitation
 Illiteracy
 Poverty and Indebtedness
 Intra Use and Inter Use Conflicts

10. Technological Issues
 Adoption of New Technologies
 Trawling and Purse Seining
 Environmental Degradation, Biodiversity
Loss and Intra Use Conflicts
Other Versions
 Occupational Hazards
 Occupation of Last Resort
 Reluctance by Younger Generation
 Dirty Industry

11. Solutions
 Increased awareness of factors beyond the
conventional realm of fisheries management;
 Better integration of fisheries management into
coastal area management;
 Control of land-based activities that degrade the
marine environment;
 Stronger control of access to co-resources;

12.  Stronger institutions and legal frameworks;
 Greater participation by all stakeholders in the
fisheries management process;
 Improved collection and sharing of information
about fisheries and their environment;
 Improved understanding of the socio-economic
characteristics of fisheries;

13.  Stronger systems of monitoring control and
enforcement;
 Measures to deal with uncertainty and
variability in natural resource and ecosystem
dynamics; and
 Strengthening community commitment to
responsible use of natural resources.

14. Code of Conduct For Responsible
Fisheries
 UNCLOS (The United Nations Convention on
the Law Of Sea) 1982
 Committee On Fisheries (COFI) 1991
 Adoption by FAO 1995
 The First International Instrument
 Global in Scope

15.  Principles and Standards applicable to
Conservation, Management and
Development of all Fisheries
 Objective of the Code is to promote the
rational and sustainable exploitation of world
fisheries resources through responsible
fisheries management and conservation

16. Previous Questions
 Short note on sustainable development
2006,2010