Sustainable Use
Resilient communities
Fisheries management
Aquaculture spatial planning
Sustainable fisheries and aquaculture contribute to food security, livelihoods and biodiversity conservation efforts.
Theory of Change
To create sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, we need empowered communities, socio-economic impact analysis based on transparent data and rigorous science, innovative policy, and breakthrough collaboration.
Dr. Himes-Cornell is a Fishery Officer of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and is based in Rome Italy. At FAO, Dr. Himes-Cornell's work is focused on area-based management of fisheries and aquaculture, spatial planning, coastal community vulnerability and resilience, social transformation, socio-economic impacts of fisheries and aquaculture management, climate change adaptation strategies, the socio-economic aspects of marine ecosystem services, and valuation of ecosystem services.
"It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself."
— Rachel Carson, Marine Biologist