The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020

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METHODOLOGY 
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
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ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS 
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PART 1 
WORLD REVIEW 
1
Overview 2
Capture fisheries production 
9
Aquaculture production 
21
Fishers and fish farmers 
36
The status of the fishing fleet 
41
The status of fishery resources 
47
Fish utilization and processing
59
Fish consumption
65
Fish trade and products 
73
PART 2
SUSTAINABILITY IN ACTION 
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The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Code of
Conduct for Responsible Fisheries 
92
Monitoring fisheries and aquaculture sustainability 
101
Securing fisheries and aquaculture sustainability 
109
Reporting on fisheries and aquaculture sustainability 
127
Fisheries and aquaculture sustainability in context 
138
PART 3
OUTLOOK AND EMERGING ISSUES 
163
Fisheries and aquaculture projections
164
Illuminating Hidden Harvests: the contribution
of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development 
176
CONTENTS
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Improving the assessment of global inland fisheries 
179
New and disruptive technologies for innovative
data systems and practices
183
Aquaculture biosecurity 
190
Towards a new vision for capture fisheries in
the twenty-first century 
193
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