Sentences with phrase «capture fisheries»

Certified fisheries currently land over seven million metric tonnes of seafood annually — close to eight percent of the total harvest from wild capture fisheries.

Capture fisheries production has largely stayed the same over the past few years, rising and falling between 90 million to 94 million metric tons annually, hitting 92 million metric tons in 2006.

This represents over ten percent of the annual global harvest of wild capture fisheries.

«This is the equivalent of three to five times the annual harvest of marine capture fisheries in the world.»

This technical document provides an indicator - based framework for understanding the economic, social and nutritional contributions of inland capture fisheries and aquaculture and their links to available inland water resources.

Offshore aquaculture is an emerging alternative that shows promise for reducing or eliminating many concerns embedded in existing capture fishery and land - based aquaculture practices.

The identified thirteen companies (box) shape very large marine ecosystems around the world and are involved in both wild capture fisheries and aquaculture, including whitefish, tuna, salmon, shellfish, fishmeal, fish oil, and aqua feeds.

The MSC runs the only certification and ecolabeling program for wild - capture fisheries consistent with the ISEAL Code of Good Practice for Setting Social and Environmental Standards and the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization Guidelines for the Ecolabeling of Fish and Fishery Products from Marine Capture Fisheries.

Salmon and sea bass come mostly from fish farming, while cod and tuna stem from wild - capture fisheries.

Early 2007 data suggest worldwide production from capture fisheries, excluding China, had risen by at least 3 percent in 2007.

In addition, diverse sectors such as wild - capture fisheries, aquaculture, offshore energy, deep sea mining, marine transportation, and coastal tourism are expanding to meet growing global demand.