ASEAN defines the Blue Economy is an integrated, holistic, cross-sectoral, and crossstakeholder approach that creates value-added and value-chain of resources from oceans, seas, and fresh water in inclusive and sustainable way, making the blue economy the new engine for ASEAN’s future economic growth. The ASEAN Blue Economy covers upstream downstream sectors, serving as an accelerator of the conventional marine sector such as fisheries, aquaculture, fish-only processing, and tourism and a catalyst for emerging sectors such as renewable energy, biotechnology, and marine and freshwater-based research and education as well as other emerging sectors from aquatic resources.

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