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Omar R Peñarubia, Fishery Officer - FAO

World fish supply 171 m million tonnes (2016) Total export value: USD 1 152 billion (2017) World consumption per capita (2016): 20.3 K Kg 59.6 m million

• n employed worldwide

Source: FAO. 2018. The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018 - Meeting the sustainable development goals. Rome.

Source: FAO, 2011. Global food losses and food waste – Extent, Causes and Prevention

Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year gets lost or wasted: around 1.3 billion tonnes

35% of the global landings lost and 9-15% due to fish discarded at sea

27% of the global landings lost (2016)

Harvesting Post Harvest Processing Distribution Consumption

• Discards
• Discards
• Excess
• Spoilage
• Long soaking and

hauling back times

• Predators while

in nets

• Fish falling from

nets while hauling

• Lack of

appropriate storage infrastructure and services

• Delays in sales
• Infestation

/predation

• Poor

handling/ Cold chain

• Infestation/

predation

• Low quality/ traditional

processing technique

• Poor quality

raw material

• Poor water

quality

• Scarce or absent of

packaging

• Absence of

chilling on board

• Low

processing capacity

• Excess supply/ Lack of

buyers

• Delays
• Poor quality packaging
• Careless handling/

stacking

• Poor roads

and transport facilities

• Remoteness
• f landing

sites

Best Before? Expiration date?

• Consumer confusion
• Illegal fishing technique

THE CAUSES OF FISH LOSS AND WASTE

Skills and Knowledge Policy Environment

Services and Infrastructure Appropriate technology

ADDRESSING FISH LOSS AND WASTE

Reducing losses is an important development goal in the fisheries sector, and is globally recognized as a challenge that needs to be addressed. Reducing losses is not straightforward owing to the multiplicity of species, fishing gear and methods, as well as numerous dispersed and inaccessible landing sites especially in small-scale fisheries.

Availability and Quality of Information

• Poor quality and often not produced or distributed in a timely manner.
• Poor quality of information leads to substandard guidelines
• general sense of distrust on fishery information
• results in very limited use or no use of this information

No single repository of loss scenarios and loss reduction options

Rationale: Outcome of 32nd session of COFI The Committee :

• highlighted the importance of reducing food waste

and losses

• supported the development of an FAO technical

guideline addressing the causes of and remedies to food losses and waste.

• “Practical Guidance to Inform Policy on Addressing Common Loss

Scenarios from Pre-harvest to Consumption Stages in Fisheries and Aquaculture Project”

• was funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries

• 26 May 2017: FAO Advisory

Group’s Inception Meeting March 2017 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------May 2019

• 02 November 2017: Expert

Consultation on the Development of a Global Fish Loss and Waste Repository to Inform Policy

• Natural Resources Institute (Value Chains)
• World Resources Institute (Food Loss & Waste)
• WorldFish (Gender/losses)
• UNIDO (Fish Marketing/Indonesia)
• Tanzania Govt – (Africa/losses)
• SEAFDEC (S E Asia/losses)
• Sustainable Food Chains at Wageningen University and

Research (Loss & Waste)

• Vestergaard (Food Storage)
• Mindfully Wired (Web Information Resource)

Phase II

Beta Site including selected content to be complete and shared with users. Feedback to be curated and incorporated into full site development. Repository content to be finalized for remaining value chain and loss scenarios Beta Site to be fully updated per feedback from initial user testing as well as full value chain and loss scenario content

http://www.fao.org/flw-in-fish-value-chains/en/

Loss

• ss Scenarios

Capture Fisheries Aquaculture Processing & Storage Wholesale Transport Retail Consumption

Solutio ions

Website A Activ ivit ities a and T Traffic ic

(6 May – 6 August 2019)

Highlights

• The website reached 2000 visitors and 2300 sessions since launch,

and has been viewed by users in 129 countries

• 8.33% of traffic came from ‘Organic Search’ (up from 7.6% in July).

This audience is the most engaged group with an average session duration of 4 minutes and 06 seconds

• About 10% of visitors have returned to our site. These visitors are

highly engaged, viewing an average of 5 pages and spending 5 minutes

• n the site.

Next S t Ste teps

• ‘Join Us’ page featuring the Newsletter, add a
• Larger homepage call out about the Newsletter
• Additional Loss Scenarios

Conclusion

• Importance of reducing food waste and losses
• Importance of an information repository

Thank k yo you v very mu y much

Kin indly vis visit http://www.fao.org/flw-in-fish-value-chains/en/

http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/sus tainable-fisheries-symposium/en/

• Enhance science and policy interaction

to achieve sustainable fisheries

• Develop a new vision for capture

fisheries, which can respond to rapid changes in the environment and in our society in the 21st century

• Support the implementation of the

Sustainable Goal 14

• For more information and registration:

http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/sust ainable-fisheries-symposium/en/

OBJECTIVES OF THE SYMPOSIUM