Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Fish farming overtaking traditional fisheries

Aquaculture is overtaking traditional fisheries in global production, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Monday, but a scientist with the organization, a United Nations body, said that the practice could not continue growing indefinitely at the current pace.

Fish farming is the fastest growing area of animal food production, increasing at a 6.6 percent annual rate from 1970 to 2008, the F.A.O. said in a report, State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2010. Over that period, the global per capita supply of farm-raised fish rose to 7.8 kilograms, or 17.2 pounds, from 0.7 kilogram.

“We’re going to run into constraints,” Kevern Cochrane, director of the F.A.O.’s resources use and conservation division and a contributor to the report, said by telephone, “in terms of space availability, water availability particularly fresh water and also environmental impacts and supply of feed.” Read more...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers.

No comments:

Post a Comment