FAO / SOFIA 2024 FLAGSHIP REPORT (2024)

02 MAY 2023, IJEBU-ODE, NIGERIA

1. Drone shot, aquaculture ponds in a rural area
2. Drone shot, farmer feeding catfish
3. Close up, catfish scrambling for food

JUNE 2023, GUANGDONG PROVINCE, CHINA

4. Drone shot, aquaculture park
5. Wide shot, fish producers working in a pond of an aquaculture park
6. Wide shot, fish producers catching fish from a pond

28 MAY 2024, ROME, ITALY

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Manuel Barange, Assistant Director-General / Director, Fisheries Aquaculture Division, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“We have 750 million people that are suffering from hunger today, a number that is not being reduced. We need to produce more and to produce better. And the growth in aquaculture is building up, in fact, on a stabilisation of captured fisheries. So that overtaking [by aquaculture] on capture fisheries is not because capture fisheries is decreasing in production, it’s very stable, it has been very stable for 30 years. But aquaculture continues to grow.”

2 MAY 2023, IJEBU-ODE, NIGERIA

8. Wide shot, workers in a catfish pond
9. Med shot, woman collecting catfish from a net
10. Med shot, catfish collection
11. Tilt up, woman touching catfish
12. Close up, catfish in a bucket
13. Drone shot, catfish ponds and solar panels in Ijebu-Ode

28 MAY 2024, ROME, ITALY

14. SOUNDBITE (English) Manuel Barange, Assistant Director-General / Director, Fisheries Aquaculture Division, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“Aquaculture has been very successful, but 90 percent of global aquaculture is produced in Asia. Only, for example, 1.9 percent is produced in Africa. So, if we need to continue growing aquaculture properly, we need to make sure that this geographical imbalance is addressed. And some of the work that FAO will do is particularly focused on how to develop aquaculture in the places where aquaculture is not being successful or is not developing properly.”

26-29 APRIL 2022, PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN PROVINCE, THAILAND

15. Drone shot, fishing boats at sea
16. Med shot, worker in a wholesale fish market
17. Wide shot, buyers at a wholesale fish market
18. Med shot, female workers at a fish market
19. Med shot, female workers at a fish market

28 MAY 2024, ROME, ITALY

20. SOUNDBITE (English) Manuel Barange, Assistant Director-General / Director, Fisheries Aquaculture Division, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
“The biggest challenge is how to feed 9.7 billion people in the year 2050. We need to put our heads together and show that we have the technical elements together and the political will. We know what is needed. But you know, everyone has to walk that talk. But we are confident that we have the technical knowledge to achieve it.”

JUNE 2021, CALETA TONGOY, CHILE

21. Wide shot, fisher pulling up fishnet
22. Wide shot, fishers collecting the catch
23. Wide shot, multiple small scale fishers boats

JANUARY 2018, SAMSUN, TURKEY

24. Wide shot, aquaculture pods in sea
25. Med shot, fish farmer feeding the fish
26. Wide shot, aquaculture ponds

28 MAY 2024, ROME, ITALY

27. SOUNDBITE (English) Manuel Barange, Assistant Director-General / Director, Fisheries Aquaculture Division, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
"There are three main objectives of Blue Transformation. The first one is to continue growing aquaculture sustainably with the target of growing it by 35 percent by the end of this decade. The second objective is to improve fisheries management because, although capture fisheries continue to produce well, sustainability issues remain, and we have a target ensuring that 100 percent of fisheries in the marine environment and in inland waters too are subject to proper management measures. And the third objective is to develop the value chains of aquatic foods, it’s not just about what you capture or what you grow, is what you do with it. Reducing losses, adding value to the product, facilitating the access to markets and to the consumers. All those are part of a package, and that package is what we think needs to be done to make sure that the sector contributes more to ending hunger and poverty."

25 JULY 2022, QUANG NINH PROVINCE, VIET NAM

28. Wide shot, equipment in an aquaculture pond
29. Med shot, fish producer by a shrimp pond
30. Close up, shrimp

8 MAY 2019, EL MANZANO, HUALAIHUÉ, CHILE

31. Drone shot, clam harvesting area in El Manzano
32. Tracking shot, clam harvesters working
33. Pan right, clam harvesters working
34. Med shot, clam harvester
35. Close up, unearthing clams
36. Close up, clams collected by worker

28 MAY 2024, ROME, ITALY

37. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Manuel Barange, Assistant Director-General / Director, Fisheries Aquaculture Division, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
"Overall, we have produced 185 million tons of aquatic products [aquatic animals]. Out of those 185 million, 51 percent comes from aquaculture, and that's the first message of SOFIA. For the first time in history, aquaculture produces more aquatic food [aquatic animals], more aquatic products, than fishing. This is a success because it allows us to continue increasing the contribution of fishing and aquaculture to the fight against hunger and malnutrition, without reducing fishing, which has remained fairly constant for the last 30 years, but by increasing aquaculture production."

25 JULY 2022, QUANG NINH PROVINCE, VIET NAM

38. Wide shot, fish producer in aquaculture pond
39. Tilt up, fish producer in aquaculture pond
40. Med shot, fish producer working in aquaculture pond
41. Close up, fish producer working in aquaculture pond

28 MAY 2024, ROME, ITALY

42. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Manuel Barange, Assistant Director-General / Director, Fisheries Aquaculture Division, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
"Aquaculture is expanding in all countries, but 90 percent of the production occurs in Asia, primarily in China, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and India. Only three countries in the top ten producers are non-Asian. This indicates the need to enhance production in regions where aquaculture is not yet prevalent. For instance, in Latin America, only 3.3 percent of global production originates from these countries. Therefore, it's imperative to collaborate more closely with these nations, supporting them in legal infrastructure, policy development, knowledge transfer, and capacity building to bolster production."

22 JANUARY 2024, CILACAP, JAVA PROVINCE, INDONESIA

43. Drone shot, aquaculture ponds in rural area

FAO / SOFIA 2024 FLAGSHIP REPORT (2024)

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