Small Indigenous Fish Species in Aquaculture: Can They Play a Role in Poverty Alleviation and Food S

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Small Indigenous Fish Species in Aquaculture Can
They Play a Role in Poverty Alleviation and Food
Security

• Neena KoshyInternational Collective in Support
  of Fishworkers

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THE ISSUE

• Fish is an important constituent of diet in many
  countries
• Growing demand of food fish, reducing rate of
  capture production and increasing emphasis on
  aquaculture
• Aquaculture development should be in a manner
  that meets food security, employment and
  environment stability
• Suppliers of world nutrition tops the list of
  malnourished countries in the world

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Small Indigenous Species

• Rural population depend highly on indigenous
  species of fish for nutrition.
• Locally available, more preferred
• High in nutrition and micronutrients (prescribed
  to pregnant women, lactating mothers, people with
  bone and eye ailments)
• These species are slowly getting extinct due to
  scientific aquaculture and intensive agricultural
  practices.

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Small Indigenous Species in Aquaculture

• Extensive type of aquaculture involving the small
  indigenous species in aquaculture, a source of ,
  additional income and additional nutrition to the
  rural families, incurring no additional cost and
  is environmentally friendly. (Eg Bangladesh,
  India, Cambodia, Laos, Viet Nam)
• These species are quite invisible
• absent from statistics
• no documentation of their role as nutrition
  providers
• Considered as trash/ weed fish

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An Ecosystem Approach to Aquaculture

• The recently concluded APFIC meeting on Ecosystem
  Approach to Fisheries and Aquaculture agreed that
  an EAF/A is a balanced approach to addressing
  ecosystem well-being contributing positively to
  biodiversity, governance and human well-being,
  including social development and poverty
  alleviation.

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