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Statement Delivered by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Symposium on Asserting Rights, Defining Responsibilities: Perspectives from Small-scale Fishing Communities on Coastal and Fisheries Management in Asia, Organized by International Collective in Support of Fishworkers, in Cooperation with the Fisheries Administration of the Royal Government of Cambodia, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 7-8 May 2007.

Asia is known for its great variety of marine and coastal biodiversity resources. Southeast Asia is a global centre of marine biodiversity, supporting 30 per cent of the world’s coral reefs and mangroves. Marine and coastal ecosystems have played a central role in its socio economic development, and as a result Asia has become a major world producer of fish and fisheries products supplying markets with almost 50 per cent of the world's total fish catch from capture fisheries and about 90 per cent of global aquaculture production. FAO has estimated that in 2004 Asia accounted for 87 per cent of the number of persons engaged in fisheries and aquaculture production world-wide.

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2007-05-07