• Resolution on Promotion of Worldwide Fish Consumption Movement Oslo, Norway in 2003
  • Resolution on Promotion of Worldwide Fish Consumption Movement
  • We participants in the ICFO Plenary meeting held at Radisson SAS Plaza Hotel, Oslo, Norway on 5 September, 2003,
  • Recalling
  • the Kyoto Declaration of the International Conference on the Sustainable Contribution of Fisheries to Food Security held in Kyoto in December, 1995, the Rome Declaration of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries of FAO in Match, 1999,
  • the Declaration of the World Food Summit: Five Years Later of FAO in June, 2002, and
  • the Johannesburg Declaration of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in September, 2002,
  • Recognizing that sustainable contribution of fisheries to food security is important under the current yearly increasing trend of world population which is predicted to exceed 7 billion in 2015 and 8 billion in 2030,
  • Noting that fishery resources are exhaustible natural resources and the over-fishing will lead to depletion of the resources,
  • Also noting that fishery resources have features that are different from manufactured industrial products because if the resources are depleted, it becomes very difficult to restore them,
  • Recognizing that over-fishing will lead to price collapse of fish catch leading to collapse of fisheries and fishing communities,
  • Further recognizing that to deal with fish and fish products only from the commercial viewpoint, that is buying and selling, should be strictly refrained from, from the standpoints of the necessity of sustainable development of fisheries and worldwide food security,
  • Resolved as follows:
  • 1. that each ICFO member will make its efforts to promote "fish consumption movement", along with all out resource management
  • efforts, within the country. This movement shall be implemented as much as possible under the "Consume The Products Where They Are Produced" principle, or known as "Local Production Local Consumption" principle, in order to ensure balanced development of fisheries and contribute to social roles of fisheries, that is, contribution of fisheries to food security.
  • 2. that each ICFO member makes its efforts to use every possible opportunity to encourage fisheries organizations of non-ICFO
  • member countries to engage in fish consumption promotion activities as well.
  • September 5, 2003
  • Oslo, Norway
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