Forestry 12.2 22.0

The projects focus mainly on fisheries, poultry production, nutrition, crop production, forestry and livestock raising.

(f) Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture

The chapter on marine culture assesses mariculture methods (marine net pen rearing, ocean ranching, extractive aquaculture and intensive shrimp farming) for their environmental consequences, and suggests best practices to guide policy making.

The projects focus mainly on fisheries, poultry production and horticulture.

We'll have a plantation, a Dalmatian plantation.

C. Aquaculture

Capacity Building in Palm Oil Industry, Livestock Breeding and Animal Faltering Technology in Sierra Leone.

The projects focus mainly on fisheries, water management, animal production and income generating activities.

It was mentioned that industrial aquaculture could have negative impacts on artisanal fishermen.

One delegation noted that small scale fisheries were at times in conflict with industrial fishing and aquaculture.

A Dalmatian plantation, I say.

The ongoing and increasing logging of fine lichen forests increases the necessity of providing fodder and threatens the economic self sustainability of reindeer husbandry, as husbandry depends on the reindeer being able to sustain themselves.

Turning to emerging issues, the practice of farming marine species mariculture is spreading rapidly.

Can you ask? Yes, yes ma'am.

We'll have a Dalmatian plantation.

Not to mention the 400 acres and the croquet field, and the trout hatchery.

Commercial models of farm cattle raising have not been introduced yet in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In Bangladesh, for example, aquaculture contributed to poverty reduction, employment, food security and increasing rural incomes.

Parties reported that climate change would affect fishery resources by destroying breeding and nursery areas, such as mangrove forests and coral reefs, and by affecting the availability of nutrients.

It can grow you can grow it and did I mention? it's quite tasty.

In the women support programme, 12 women, 11 vets and one livestock production officer have been trained in animal husbandry, poultry production and livestock disease.

In that country, the ratio between incomes and costs of aquaculture in ponds was almost 33 per cent higher than that of a double crop system combining aquaculture and rice cultivation.

The National Fisheries and Aquaculture Institute promotes the consultation and effective participation of people involved in fishing and aquaculture as individuals or as members of cooperatives or other organizations such as those of shipowners, processors, fisheries trade unions, industry, researchers, financial and educational organizations and of other qualified individuals involved in the elaboration of plans for developing fisheries and aquaculture and related activities.

Activities supported under the food and agriculture programme include seed production, horticulture, plant protection, crop improvement, extension and training, sericulture and apiculture, and livestock development.

Less efficient breeds are used in cattle raising.

Mr. Lahsen Ababouch, expert in aquaculture, FAO

Rural tourism, handicraft and service sector, crayfish and fish growing, and food processing in small enterprises have been supported (these fields of business often largely employ women workers).

The joint projects would include trade and training activities, development of sheep breeding and the expansion of the fishery industry, in particular fish, lobster and shrimp farming.13

Small scale aquaculture was also recognized as a development tool.

Food production or marketing means all operations in the production of food (other than planting and breeding) and activities such as the gathering, purchase, processing, storage, transport, display, supply and sale of food.

The percentage was appreciably higher for women's participation in manual farming jobs that are time consuming and non mechanized, including hand harvesting, grass sowing and sorting, jobs in the cottage food industries and the jobs involved in caring for and rearing farm animals, such as feeding, watering and milking.

Cheap imports can drive out local producers, as is happening with the U.S. shrimp industry, which is threatened by cheap imported aquaculture shrimp from Asia and Latin America.

Aquaculture of shrimps in tropical countries was cited as an example of an industry which had been the subject of a campaign by NGOs alleging that this industry contributed to the destruction of coastal ecological systems, particularly mangrove forests, and led to the displacement of local communities.

And also showing oyster gardening for the community along its edges.

Such strategies could be organized around four pillars fishing agreements, improved access to international markets, development of aquaculture and better access to finance.

You can see the eight chambers on the side host little baby oysters and essentially force feed them.

The projects focus on poultry, vegetable and fruit production.

At present, the production of 1kg of salmon required 5 kg of wild fish as feed.

The 82.67 square kilometer Datong Lake at the center of Dongting Lake has been suffering from agricultural and household wastewater pollution, as well as breeding enterprises' blind pursuit of economic benefits in recent years.

Sebastian Mathew, Programme Adviser, International Collective in Support of Fishworkers, Chennai, India, focused, inter alia, on the role of fisheries, including aquaculture, as a major source of employment.

The Turks and Caicos Islands is home to the world s only commercial conch farm, raising domestic conch for export.

7.8 As to the effects of logging on reindeer herding, the State party notes that it has not been shown that the effects of the earlier logging operations were more than anticipated.

Nor was it shown that logging operations would create long lasting harm preventing the authors from continuing reindeer herding in the area at its present extent.

The firm, Caicos Conch Farm, has been conducting research for the past decade and was at almost full commercial activity at the end of 1996.