Friday, February 4, 2011

Fisheries, aquaculture support 540 million, says FAO

Fisheries and aquaculture support the livelihoods of an estimated 540 million people, or eight percent of the world population, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Also, the contribution of fish to global diets has reached a record of about 17 kg per person on average, supplying over three billion people with at least 15 percent of their average animal protein intake.

This is due to the ever-growing production of aquaculture which is set to overtake fisheries as a source of food fish, the State of the World’s Fisheries and Aquaculture released by FAO said. The report also stressed that the status of global fish stocks has not improved.

According to the report, fish products continue to be the most-traded of food commodities, worth a record US$102 billion in 2008, up nine percent from 2007. The overall percentage of over-exploited, depleted or recovering fish stocks in the world’s oceans has not dropped and is estimated to be slightly higher than in 2006. About 32 percent of world fish stocks are estimated to be over-exploited, depleted or recovering and needs to be urgently rebuilt, the report says. Read more...

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

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