Posts Tagged ‘United Nations’
A slippery problem
A United Nations initiative aims to promote the recovery of the European eel population in the Mediterranean. Is aquaculture helping or hindering? The future of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla), an iconic fish species and much appreciated in Mediterranean cuisine, is currently at risk. But a management plan that includes a partial closure of eel…
Read MoreUN aquaculture worker in plane toll
A BRITISH woman who was among the 157 people killed in yesterday’s Ethiopian Airlines crash worked for the United Nations fisheries and aquaculture department. Joanna Toole, 36, from Devon, one of seven Britons to die in the tragedy, was heading for the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya. The Boeing 737 Max 8 plane hit…
Read MoreFeed group raises the sustainability bar
FEED group BioMar has reached four out of five of its sustainability goals for raw materials three years ahead of schedule, the company announced today. BioMar has now decided to raise the bar further and has set new targets for 2020. ‘Sustainability in the aquaculture industry begins with the feed, and in BioMar we believe…
Read MoreAquaculture ‘benefits the planet’ says UN chief
THE world is going through pronounced changes which will have implications for aquaculture businesses, the former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon told delegates at the AquaVision conference in Stavanger yesterday. During his keynote speech, he outlined challenges to the post Second World War international order, saying ‘protectionism and tariffs are being advanced and populist nationalism is…
Read MoreBan Ki-moon keynote speaker for AquaVision
THE former secretary-general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, will be keynote speaker at AquaVision 2018, to be held in Stavanger in June, it was announced today. He will address the food security challenges of the coming decades. The theme for the biennial conference is ‘Meeting tomorrow today’ and the two-day programme will focus on…
Read More