BFP Workshop on Valuating Fisheries and Aquatic Systems

Simple and rapid tools that enable reasonable estimates of water productivity in different aquatic systems are not readily available. Despite specific recognition of the issues, not much has been done on the development of appropriate diagnostic tools for water productivity in fisheries and aquaculture. This gap is one of the priorities currently addressed by the CPWF Theme 3 and to be discussed in this workshop.

Objective:

Discuss and deliver a framework for development of methods and tools needed to confim, inform and support the BFPs in enhancing the role of fisheries and aquaculture in water productivity and poverty alleviation in a multiple water use context

Thematic issues to be addressed:

1. The concept of "water productivity" in fisheries and aquaculture. How to define, measure and incorporate the concept into the management of water for agriculture?
2. Comprehensive evaluation of ecosystem goods and services derived from fisheries and aquaculture: adapting and deploying practicl diagnostic tools for valuation within a multiple water-use context
3. External threats (eg., hydropower) to environmental flows and its consequent effects on fisheries

Outputs:

1. Need based framework for development of methods and tools for diagnosis of fisheries and aquaculture at the river basin scale
2. Generic impact pathways identifying potential trade-offs and impacts of fisheries and aquaculture in support of rural livelihoods under differnt scenarios