FAO’s Expertise on Climate Change’s Impact on Aquaculture in India

• FAO’s Director of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, Manuel Barange, warns of climate change’s significant disruption to aquaculture.

• Climate change will reduce ocean production and alter the composition of fish catches.

• Barange calls for policy measures to support micro, small, and medium players in the “blue economy.”

• India needs to adapt by changing fishing gears and marketing new fish varieties.

• Barange emphasizes the potential of aquaculture in India, which is growing faster than the global average.