FAO
D4. Fisheries, aquaculture, blue economy and marine resourcesDefinition
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
The Food and Agriculture Organization is the UN agency that sets the global frame for fisheries and aquaculture governance, publishing the biennial State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA), maintaining the FishStat catch database, and stewarding instruments like the 1995 Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and the 2016 Port State Measures Agreement. Its statistical fishing areas standardize global catch reporting, and its data underpin most assessments of stock status worldwide.