Problems and solutions in coping with extreme meteorological events in fisheries and aquacultute, and challenges remaining for the use of science to contribute to problem analyses and designing valuable solutions in this context of fisheries and aquaculture

Abstract

Box III.6.16 explains the source of the material for this section. Fishers and aquaculture workers represented 2.8% of the 1.33 billion people economically active in agriculture worldwide in 2002, compared with 2.3% in 1990. Fishing in marine waters and inland waters roughly accounted for 75% of the total number of workers, while aquaculture production provided employment for the remaining 25%. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.