A few years have passed since major quantitative studies were undertaken on the future of the fisheries sector and the results published in The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture. How do the projections compare with recorded developments? It is, of course, too early to come to any definite conclusions even for the projections aimed at 2010. Nevertheless, a start can be made. the results are provided in the first part of this section.
During the past two years FAO has conducted a comprehensive