FAO SHRIMP ADVICE PROGRAMME GETS WORLD BANK AWARD
December 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank has given its 2006 'Green Award' to a collaborative farmed seafood industry-international organisation study that produced global and detailed advice on reducing pollution problems caused by shrimp farming. The Network for Aquaculture Centres for the Asia Pacific teamed with the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO), WWF, the UN Environment Programme and the bank itself to form the Consortium on Shrimp Farming and the Environment. Participants staged detailed consultations with fish farms, governments and biologists to ...
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