{"id":30046,"date":"2025-02-12T05:28:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30046"},"modified":"2025-04-09T14:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:16:40","slug":"asian-fisheries-and-aquaculture-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/asian-fisheries-and-aquaculture-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Asian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The 14th Asian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum (14AFAF) is being organized in New Delhi during February 12-14, 2025.<\/p>\n<h2>About Asian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>triennial event<\/strong>\u00a0of the Asian Fisheries Society which has a strong legacy of fostering global collaboration in the sector.<\/li>\n<li>Since its inception, the forum has been successfully hosted in multiple countries across Asia.<\/li>\n<li>This prestigious event is\u00a0<strong>being hosted in India for the 2nd time<\/strong>\u00a0after the 8AFAF held at Kochi in 2007.<\/li>\n<li>The forum will provide a platform to\u00a0<strong>showcase India\u2019s contributions,<\/strong>\u00a0strengthen international partnerships, and promote innovative approaches for sustainable, resilient, and economically viable\u00a0<strong>fish production systems.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>With a rapidly expanding blue economy, progressive government policies, and significant scientific advancements, India has emerged as a key player in sustainable fisheries and aquaculture.<\/li>\n<li>India occupies 2nd position in total fish production and also aquaculture production globally.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters:<\/strong>\u00a0Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about 14th AFAF<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The 14th AFAF brings together key players from the fisheries and aquaculture sectors and will host around 1,000 delegates from 24 countries, including researchers, policymakers, industry leaders, and stakeholders.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Theme of 14th AFAF:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cGreening the Blue Growth in Asia-Pacific\u201d<\/li>\n<li>It is being jointly organized by the\u00a0<strong>Asian Fisheries Society<\/strong>\u00a0(AFS), Kuala Lumpur;\u00a0<strong>Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi; the Department of Fisheries<\/strong>\u00a0(DoF), Government of India; and the Asian Fisheries Society Indian Branch (AFSIB), Mangalore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Asian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the rank of India in fisheries and aquaculture?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0India is the third largest fish producing country, contributing 8 percent to the global fish production and ranks second in aquaculture production.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0Where is the Indian Council for Agricultural research situated?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0New Delhi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2101732\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum is a triennial event of the Asian Fisheries Society which has a strong legacy of fostering global collaboration in the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}