Lessons from past and current aquaculture inititives in selected Pacific Island countries
This report is a synthesis of the reviews of aquaculture development status and experiences of eight Pacific Island Countries (PICs). Seven PICs were covered during May-September 2010; the eighth was the subject of a separate project carried out in July 2009. The country reviews cover recent and current developments, supplemented by a comprehensive historical review of aquaculture in the Pacific conducted in 1984 by the Hawaiian-based Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP). The remit of this project (TCP/RAS/3301) was to identify areas for technical assistance that would further promote aquaculture development. This was accomplished by identifying issues in sector governance relating to the success of aquaculture enterprises and drawing lessons on what factors contributed to success and what led to the abandonment or termination of a farming enterprise and why. The screens used for success were biological feasibility, technical feasibility, economic viability and social acceptability. Sustainability would be the ultimate screen but no specific criteria were set up for this, and could only be inferred from the continued operation of an enterprise. Thus, the core of the lessons learned comprises the factors that enable economic viability of the farming of a species. This screening mechanism is explained in the report. The context for technical feasibility and economic viability is sector governance. In this connection, the various mechanisms of governance and its enabling elements that include capacity building and institutional development and linkages were reviewed and assessed as to how and what extent these have specifically influenced technical and economic success, and the management of aquaculture development. The assessments appear in detail in the country reviews (Section 2 of this report) and are categorized into strategic, management and technical lessons. The recommendations necessarily address the same issues associated with the governance mechanisms (command and control, marketbased, voluntary, and social norms and traditions) and those associated with the weaknesses of the enabling mechanisms (including manpower development, institutional capacity building and linkages, stakeholder participation, and knowledge development and sharing). A general recommendation is to catalyse these through a regional cooperative arrangement such as a network based on technical cooperation, with its formation and initial stage of operation facilitated by a regional technical assistance.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Apia (Samoa) FAO
2014
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| Subjects: | aquaculture, fish farms, species, economic viability, fisheries development, governance, capacity building, farm management, extension activities, training, domestic markets, market access, best practices, case studies, |
| Online Access: | http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4139e.pdf |
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