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Employment in fisheries sector grew by 7M in last decade – FAO report
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CEBU CITY (PNA) – Employment in the world’s fisheries sector has increased by seven million in the last decade, a recent report of the Romebased United Nations (UN) Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said.
In 2000, the report said an estimated 35 million people were directly engaged in fishing and fish farming as a full-time or more frequently part-time occupation, compared with 28 million a decade before.
According to the report, the number of fishers has been growing at an average rate of 2.2 percent per annum since 1990 while aquaculture workers have increased by an annual average of about 7 percent.
These apparent increases, it explained, are in part a result of better reporting.
Most of the growth of employment in fishing farming and other cultural practices has occurred in Asia (85 percent of the world total), particularly in China, where the reported number of people engaging in cultivation of aquatic life has doubled in the past decade.
Fishers and aquaculture workers are also in Africa (7 percent), Europe, South America and Central America (about 2 percent each), the report revealed.
In 2000, the report said fishers and aquaculture workers represented 2.6 percent of the 1.3 billion people economically active in agriculture worldwide, compared with 2.3 percent in 1990.
This world average, it said, is reflected in most continents, except for Africa, where the percentage of fishing and aquaculture workers is a low 1.3 percent of the total agriculture labor force, and North and Central America, where the share is 1 percent higher than the world average.
The report said greater economic opportunities have been derived from the commercial aquaculture production sector.
In 1999, it said the average annual income of Japanese households engaged in aquaculture was nearly twice as much as that of households engaged in coastal fishing.
While the households engaged in aquaculture derived an average 64 percent of their income from aquaculture-related activities, the report said fishing-related activities accounted for an average 38 percent of the income of fishing households.
Employment in fishing, it said, is decreasing in capital-intensive economies, notably European countries and in Japan.
In Norway, it said employment in the fishery sector has been declining for several years.
In 1990, it said about 27,500 people were employed in fishing (excluding fish farming), but this number had declined by 27 percent to 20,100 in 2000.
In Japan, over the last decade, it said the number of marine fishery workers peaked in 1991 and has been failing even since to reach a low of 260,000 people in 2000.
Of these, it said about 85 percent were employed in coastal fishery operations, while offshore and pelagic fisheries employed the remaining 15 percent.
The report said the vast majority (75 percent) of fishers were self-employed workers. Confirming this special feature of the fishery professions.
September 4, 2004, Manila Bulletin
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In 2000, the report said an estimated 35 million people were directly engaged in fishing and fish farming as a full-time or more frequently part-time occupation, compared with 28 million a decade before.
According to the report, the number of fishers has been growing at an average rate of 2.2 percent per annum since 1990 while aquaculture workers have increased by an annual average of about 7 percent.
These apparent increases, it explained, are in part a result of better reporting.
Most of the growth of employment in fishing farming and other cultural practices has occurred in Asia (85 percent of the world total), particularly in China, where the reported number of people engaging in cultivation of aquatic life has doubled in the past decade.
Fishers and aquaculture workers are also in Africa (7 percent), Europe, South America and Central America (about 2 percent each), the report revealed.
In 2000, the report said fishers and aquaculture workers represented 2.6 percent of the 1.3 billion people economically active in agriculture worldwide, compared with 2.3 percent in 1990.
This world average, it said, is reflected in most continents, except for Africa, where the percentage of fishing and aquaculture workers is a low 1.3 percent of the total agriculture labor force, and North and Central America, where the share is 1 percent higher than the world average.
The report said greater economic opportunities have been derived from the commercial aquaculture production sector.
In 1999, it said the average annual income of Japanese households engaged in aquaculture was nearly twice as much as that of households engaged in coastal fishing.
While the households engaged in aquaculture derived an average 64 percent of their income from aquaculture-related activities, the report said fishing-related activities accounted for an average 38 percent of the income of fishing households.
Employment in fishing, it said, is decreasing in capital-intensive economies, notably European countries and in Japan.
In Norway, it said employment in the fishery sector has been declining for several years.
In 1990, it said about 27,500 people were employed in fishing (excluding fish farming), but this number had declined by 27 percent to 20,100 in 2000.
In Japan, over the last decade, it said the number of marine fishery workers peaked in 1991 and has been failing even since to reach a low of 260,000 people in 2000.
Of these, it said about 85 percent were employed in coastal fishery operations, while offshore and pelagic fisheries employed the remaining 15 percent.
The report said the vast majority (75 percent) of fishers were self-employed workers. Confirming this special feature of the fishery professions.
September 4, 2004, Manila Bulletin
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