Roles and contributions of fisheries science in Asia in the 21^st century

Abstract

SUMMARY: Asia is the largest continent in the world. Asians comprise 60% of the world's current population of 6.1 billion. Since ancient times, most Asians have relied on fish and other aquatic foods as a major source of animal protein. At the end of the 1990s, a full two-thirds of the world annual food fish production, 93 million metric tons, were consumed in Asia. The vast aquatic resources in the region coupled with aquaculture history which spans for millennia have predisposed the Asians to be predominantly seafood consumers. In 1999, aquaculture and capture fisheries production in the region constituted 91 % and 49% by weight, respectively, of the total world production. The top ten aquaculture producers and five of the top ten capture fisheries producers were from Asia.

Spatial–Temporal Evolution and Sustainable Type Division of Fishery Science and Technology Innovation Efficiency in China

“…Scholars agree that the progress of fishery science and technology is very important to the development of fishery production. Japanese scholar Fujii et al [9] stated that the progress of fishery science and technology was an important guarantee for the sustainable development of food and the stable supply of aquatic products, Liao's research showed that the substantial increase in aquaculture production was mainly attributed to the significant progress of fishery science and technology [10]; Chang and Lee [11] believed that technological innovation was the catalyst to improve aquaculture productivity and sustainable development of capture fishery, and constructed an input-output evaluation system of fishery technological innovation to study the impact of technological innovation on fishery production; Bradley et al [12] postulated that the level of fishery management could be effectively improved through technological innovation and improvement of fishery data system. The research on the development of fishery science and technology mainly involved the measurement of total factor productivity, the calculation of economic contribution rate and the calculation of technological innovation efficiency.…”

“…In order to further analyze the characteristic similarity of the investment scale of fishery science and technology innovation in various provinces in China, according to Equations ( 7)- (10), the entropy method [50,51] was used to calculate the investment scale indicators of fishery production and innovation from the three aspects of funding, labor and resources by weighted sum calculation, to obtain the comprehensive score of each region in the investment scale, as shown in Table 2. Because the detailed calculation process takes up a lot of space, it is omitted here.…”

A study of informal communication among fishery scientists

“…According to the profile of Asian Fisheries Science, scientists in Asia, including scientists in Taiwan, are "isolated," implying low interaction among colleagues and professional contacts (Aquisap, Carigma, Carino, Castriool, Gayanilo, Guzman, Janagap, Maclean, Pauly, Tech & Temprosa, 1996). Thus, they discover or learn little about new research through personal networks and information exchange (Liao, 2002).…”