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By PATRICK MAYOYO
The Meals and Agriculture Group of the United Nations (FAO) will launch its flagship report on The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture on 16 June through the Our Ocean Convention, hosted by the Authorities of Kenya in Mombasa.
The official press convention on the SOFIA launch is scheduled to take place at 1pm EAT (10am GMT) on-line. Journalists can comply with the press convention by way of Zoom right here and ask questions remotely.
This 12 months’s version presents tangible progress in implementing the FAO’s Blue Transformation roadmap highlighting how nations are advancing fisheries and aquaculture by innovation, science, accountable administration and neighborhood engagement.
Printed each two years since 1994, SOFIA gives essentially the most up-to-date data on tendencies, challenges, alternatives and improvements from the sector and provides a world perspective on the function of aquatic meals programs in meals safety, vitamin, livelihoods and sustainable improvement.
The report serves as a key reference for governments, policymakers, practitioners, lecturers, and improvement companions.
FAO mentioned in a press release that SOFIA 2026 might be offered on the press convention by Manuel Barange, Assistant Director-Basic and Director of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, Meals and Agriculture Organizations of the UN. Different remarks might be made by Ms Betsy Njiagi, Principal Secretary, Ministry of Mining, Blue economic system and Maritime Affairs amongst others.
This marks the primary time the globally influential occasion might be held on African soil, putting the highlight on Africa’s oceans, coastal communities, and wealthy marine biodiversity.
Guided by the theme “Our Ocean, Our Heritage, Our Future”, the Mombasa convention will discover the pivotal function oceans play in shaping tradition, livelihoods, and sustainable financial improvement. The occasion will convey collectively governments, companies, innovators, and native communities to remodel world ocean dialogue into concrete motion, with a concentrate on jobs, fairness, and wholesome seas.
Key goals for the 2026 convention embody: mobilising personal sector funding within the sustainable blue economic system, empowering and elevating younger ocean leaders, catalysing modern ocean finance mechanisms, combating unlawful, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and advancing marine conservation and restoration to attain local weather and 30×30 targets.
Kenya’s choice as host displays its rising function as a hub for ocean analysis, technological innovation, and community-led ocean administration. Officers hope the occasion will form the worldwide ocean agenda for the approaching decade, at a essential second within the so-called “essential decade” for ocean motion.
The tenth Our Ocean Convention , held in Busan, South Korea, adopted the theme “Our Ocean, Our Motion”, selling tangible steps in the direction of ocean sustainability. A spotlight of that convention was the introduction of Digital Oceans, an idea merging ocean industries with digital expertise to speed up sustainable ocean administration. The Busan occasion laid the groundwork for innovation and world collaboration that the Mombasa convention will now construct upon.
As Kenya prepares to welcome delegates from all over the world, organisers emphasise that the eleventh Our Ocean Convention represents a novel alternative to safeguard shared marine heritage and safe a thriving ocean for future generations.
