Fisheries and aquaculture are confronted with continuing problems such as climate change, growing human populations, low income of small scale fishers and fish farmers, and competitive production and trading conditions. People should be confronting and discussing the challenges in order to come up with solutions on how we can respond; and the community should be resilient and adaptive in combatting the challenges. We cannot immediately solve some problems, such as overfishing, illegal fishing, depletion of
Prof. Alice Joan G. Ferrer, PhD, President, Asian Fisheries Society
By Shinoj Parappurathu, C. Ramachandran, A. Gopalakrishnan