Within the framework of its continued efforts to reduce food insecurity and improve the livelihoods of impoverished communities around the world, the FAO Fisheries Department has embarked on programmes of sustainably increasing fish production from aquaculture, especially in developing countries. One of the ways of boosting aquaculture output is through elaboration and implementation of adequate policies and laws that encourage the emergence of private entrepreneurship in aquaculture. By preparing this document, the goal of the Fisheries Department is to assist developing countries, with emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa, to develop and implement such policy and legal tools.
The report is a result of studies that confront the aquaculture regimes of Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria and Zambia against the criteria established in the examination of the legislative elements required to encourage sustainable commercial aquaculture. The studies were conducted by the Fishery Policy and Planning Division, Development Planning Service (FIPP).
