"www.fao.org/about/meetings/sustainable-food-systems-nutrition-symposium The International Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition was jointly held by FAO and WHO in December 2016 to explore policies and programme options for shaping the food systems in ways that deliver foods for a healthy diet, focusing on concrete country experiences and challenges. This Symposium waas the first large-scale contribution under the UN Decade of Action for Nutrition 2016-2025. This presentation was part of Parallel session 1.1: Sustainable agriculture production and diversification for healthy diets"

1. Aquaculture and sustainable
fisheries for nutrition
Learning from Norway
Ole Arve Misund, Livar Frøyland, Ingvild Eide Graff,
Gro-Ingunn Hemre, Geir Lasse Taranger

2. Norwegian Fisheries:
~ 80 fish stocks, 10 000 fishers, 6000
vessels, 2.5 mill ton catch
- Well regulated: TAC science based,
technical reg., precautionary approach,
harvest control rules, fisheries monitoring
and inspections, biodiversity conservation

3. Norwegian aquaculture
• 1.2 mill. tons Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar),
70 000 tons of rainbow trout (O. mykiss)
• Challenges in salmon aquaculture:
– Environmental sustainability (e.g. sea lice)
– Sustainable feed resources
• Considerable R&D to develop other species for
aquaculture e.g. Atlantic cod and Atlantic halibut;
prod. low due to disease, prod. & market issues
• Minor farming of mussels and lobster
Norwegian farming of salmon,
trout & other species 1980-
2014

4. Research in the whole food chain –
from fish feed to seafood and health effects
Health effects?Feed Fish health and welfare
(farmed fish)
Seafood
Wild fish

5. National policies to support fish consumption
Debate about undesirable substances;
Limit to two meals of fatty fish per week?
Directorate of
health (2011):
Eat 2-3
seafood
dinners per
week

6. Seafood Norwegians eat (2015)
Source: Europanel/Norw. Seafood Council

7. Seafood consumption among Norwegian women
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
18-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-70
NORKOST 1997
NORKOST 2011
g/day
Age women
Oily fish only 14 g/day
(Mean for all women,
2011)
Wild salmon
Farmed salmon
EFSA:
0,25 g/day (2010)

8. Conclusions:
• Seafood may contribute with nutrients not
commonly found in other food items
• Farmed salmon an important source of
marine omega-3 fatty acids, possible to
tailor with vitamin D
• Fisheries and aquaculture may contribute to
food and nutrition security