Report of the Ad hoc Expert Meeting on Indicators and Criteria of Sustainable Shrimp Culture
Subtitle: Rome, Italy, 28-30 April 1998 = Rapport de la Réunion ad hoc d'experts sur les indicateurs et critères relatifs á l'élevage durable des crevettes : Rome, Italie, 28-30 avril 1998
Contributors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Series: FAO fisheries report -- no. 582; FAO fisheries report -- no. 582.
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9789250042282
Subjects: Shrimp culture; Congresses; Shrimp fisheries; Crevettes; Congrès; Élevage; Pêche commerciale
Other titles: Rapport de la Réunion ad hoc d'experts sur les indicateurs et critères relatifs á l'élevage durable des crevettes; Informe de la Reunión Especial Expertos Técnicos sobre Indicadores y Criterios para el Cultivo Sostenible del Camarón
Description: The Bangkok FAO Technical Consultation on Policies for Sustainable Shrimp Culture recommended that FAO specifically request governments of countries engaged in shrimp culture to report on progress in implementing the code of conduct for responsible fisheries in relation to shrimp culture activities to the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) at its next and subsequent sessions. This publication contains the findings of the ad hoc expert meeting in pursuance of this recommendation. The meeting prioritized and prepared a recommended short-list of the criteria and indicators of sustainable shrimp fisheries which should form the basis for regular reporting by countries to COFI. The meeting stressed that these criteria and indicators related to the national level and did not encompass farm-level and local-level indicators. It noted that the regular collation of these indicators would greatly benefit the planning and management of shrimp culture development in the countries. The meeting concluded that it would be premature at this stage to request governments to report actual data on those indicators to the next session of COFI, in February 1999. Instead, the meeting elaborated a questionnaire to allow governments to review and comment on the recommended indicators and on their present and future ability to acquire the related data and information. Moreover, the meeting decided that in this questionnaire, governments should be given the opportunity to indicate the nature of assistance deemed desirable to adopt a comprehensive statistical system for their shrimp culture sub-sectors in view of the inadequacies of many existing systems and the high socio-economic importance and specific management and development requirements of shrimp culture.--Publisher's description.
Notes: Also available online.

English, French, and Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Opening; title: Election of chairman; title: Adoption of agenda; title: The concept and role of sustainability indicators : an introduction; title: Eco-system and bio-physical indicators; title: Economic and social indicators; title: Legal and institutional indicators; title: Farm-level indicators (bio-physical; technical; financial); title: Country experiences on the compilation and use of data and information on shrimp culture; title: Collation and analysis of aquaculture statistics including indicators by FAO; title: Review and short-listing/prioritization of indicators and criteria; title: Discussion on ways and means of information acquisition and dissemination; title: Discussion of contents and format of annotated questionnaire addressed to governments.