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The FAO Fish Price Index (FPI) Trade and fishmeal. Frank Asche Ischia, October 3, 2013. Real export values. Real import values. Export quantities. Import quantities. Unit prices. Unit prices. Unit prices. The effect of trade.
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The FAO Fish Price Index (FPI) Trade and fishmeal Frank Asche Ischia, October 3, 2013
Better management can improve fisheries and increase value:Small pelagics • Are primarily reduced to fishmeal and oil, but are increasingly used for human consumption • The majority of fishmeal and oil is now used in aquafeeds • Should their use be governed by management system, economics, or some ethical principles giving a different outcome?
Trimmings is an incresing resource • Better bycatch handeling • Approx 50% of the biomass is trimmings • In agriculture this is a valuable resource, to often it ends on the garbage dump for seafood • With increased aquaculture production, the potential increase dramatically