Feasibility of stocking and culture-based fisheries in Central Asia
Thorpe, A.; Whitmarsh, D.; Drakeford, B.; Reid, C.; Karimov, B.; Timirkhanov, S.; Satybekov, K.; Van Anrooy, R. (2011). Feasibility of stocking and culture-based fisheries in Central Asia. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper, 565. FAO: Rome. ISBN 978-92-5-106964-6. 106 pp. Part of: FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper. FAO/Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Rome. ISSN 2070-7010, more |  |
| Authors | | Top | - Thorpe, A.
- Whitmarsh, D.
- Drakeford, B.
- Reid, C.
| - Karimov, B.
- Timirkhanov, S.
- Satybekov, K.
- Van Anrooy, R.
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| Abstract | Culture-based fisheries have been successfully developed across the world in order to increase productivity of capture fisheries, with five to tenfold increases in productivity per hectare not uncommon. Fish farming too has shown to be an important contributor to national food security, rural employment and income generation. Unfortunately, political upheaval, the disruption of historic fish supply chains and limited state budgets have combined to halt many of the stocking and culture-based fisheries programmes in the Central Asian and Caucasus region during the 1990s. This is unfortunate, as a number of important waterbodies in the region offer great potential for such activities. As a consequence, this study was tasked with providing an overview of regional waterbodies and historic and contemporary culture-based fisheries and stocking experiences – using case studies from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan – with a view to suggesting potential ways in which national governments and the Central Asian and Caucasus Regional Fisheries and Aquaculture Commission (CACFish) might support the rehabilitation of culture (and, by extension, capture) fi sheries in the region. Seven overarching principles are identified (i.e. ecosystem compatibility, compatibility with other uses, best available science and information, social and economic benefits, collaboration with the culture production sector, the regulatory process, public information) and accompanying recommendations are made to guide culture-based activity and stocking in the region. The Fourth Intergovernmental Meeting on the Establishment of the Central Asian and Caucasus Regional Fisheries and Aquaculture Commission (Cholpon Ata, Kyrgyzstan, 22–24 June 2011) discussed and adopted the conclusions and recommendations of this regional study and requested the FAO Secretariat to CACFish to pass them forward to the Inaugural Meeting of the Commission for endorsement by the same Commission. |
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