Presentation by WorldFish Director General Stephen Hall at the Global Oceans Action Summit, held in the Hague, the Netherlands, April 2014.

1. Healthy oceans through
investments in
sustainable aquaculture

2. We will have healthy oceans when we have ….

3. Aquaculture delivers ocean health because it …

4. Increasing global demand for fish
By 2020, we will need an extra 18 million tons of fish

5. Fisheries
Aquaculture
Aquaculture must increase our fish supply.

6. 1billion

7. Fish is key for food and nutrition security

8. Egypt: an aquaculture success story
• The cheapest animal
source food for Egyptians
• Supplies one fish per
person per week
• Employs 200,000 people

9. FoodPriceIndex
Riots and Food Prices
More fish promotes global security
• Food prices spikes correlate strongly with civil unrest
• It’s not only rises in cereal prices that lead to trouble

10. Aquaculture offers more than food
• A driver of rural development
• A source of employment and livelihood

11. Emissions
-200
Kgpertonneprotein
1200
800
400
0
Nitrogen
Phosphorous
Conversion Efficiency
0
kggrainperkgprotein
60
50
40
30
20
10
70
Aquaculture has a comparative advantage

12. We need to manage those impacts by:
• Market, regulatory and technology interventions that promote
profitable and sustainable practice.
• Innovations in feeds, genetics, training and markets.
• Farming species that feed lower down the food chain.
Aquaculture growth will impact ecosystems

13. Worldfish: an international, nonprofit research
organization dedicated to harnessing the potential of
fisheries and aquaculture to reduce hunger and poverty

14. • Improving nutrition and health
• Improving value chains
• Gender and equity
• Adapting to climate change
• Sustainable aquaculture production and productivity
• Policies and practices for resilience
WorldFish research agenda

15. 80% SMEs

16. • SMEs strengthen communities and promote better livelihoods
• SMEs often lack working capital, access to markets and
business knowledge that would help them succeed
• Investing to improving SME practices and technologies will
have significant environmental pay-offs
• Investment in SMEs needs to be accompanied by links to
markets, technology development, training and infrastructure
development
Why is an incubator needed?

17. Outcomes
• Bring research to
scale through
commercial
investment
• Nurture early-stage
aquaculture SMEs
and prepare them for
commercial
investment
Impacts
• Successful businesses
producing affordable,
nutritious food for the
poor
• Better livelihoods for
those who rely on
fisheries & aquaculture
A WorldFish incubator

18. $20M 200,000
Investment
by 2020
Women and men
with improved
livelihoods by
2020
The WorldFish Incubator: Goals
100,000
Hectares under
sustainable
practices by
2020

19. Thank You