Sustainable contribution of fisheries to food security
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This document is part of a UN Development Programme project, 'Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in Asia and the Pacific', which was implemented by the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Besides a regional overview, separate studies examine the status and role of fisheries in food security in the three subregions of South and Southeast Asia, East Asia and Oceania. The oceans, seas, rivers and lakes around and in Asia-Pacific nations yielded half of the global capture fishery ha rvest in the year 1998. The region accounted for 88 percent of world aquaculture production in that year. Fish provides on average more than one-fifth of the animal protein in diets in Asia and the Pacific and a livelihood to tens of millions of households in the region. However, Asia-Pacific catch rates, fish size and even quality are declining due in large part to severe overexploitation, threatening the contribution of fish to national and regional food security.