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Fisheries and Aquaculture

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Activities for the purpose of obtaining food and other products from water bodies involve catching and gathering as well as farming and raising aquatic organisms (above all fish, crustaceans, molluscs and algae). Annual worldwide production in the fishery and aquaculture sector amounts to around 95 million tonnes.

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German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ). (1995). Fisheries and Aquaculture. In: Environmental Handbook. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-09948-2_6

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