Freshwater aquaculture

1.3. State of the World Aquaculture

Unit 1 - Aquaculture

1.3. State of the World Aquaculture (FAO 2010)
Aquaculture is a growing vibrant and important production sector of high protein food

• The World Aquaculture produced 55.7 million tons in 2009, valued at 105.3 billion USD
• It has grown at a steady annual growth rate of 6.1% from 2001 to 2009.
• The Per capita supply of fish from aquaculture increased from 0.7 Kg in 1970 to 7.8 Kg in 2008.
• Aquaculture production increased from 1 million MT in 1750 to 55.7 million MT in 2009.
• Growth rate of aquaculture is three times the rate of meat production during the same period.
• Capture fish production has stagnated at 90 MMT since mid 1980s therefore any further increase in fish production has to come through aquaculture.
• Aquaculture production of plants in 2009 was 17.3 million MT valued at 4.8 billion US dollars

Aquaculture Production by Regions:

• Asia produced 88.8% of the total aquaculture production by quantity and 78.7% by value in 2008.
• China produced 62.3% of world production by quantity and 51.4% by value.
• Asia Excluding china produced 26.10% of the world fish production through aquaculture
• Top 15 produced contributed 92.4 percent of world Aqua Production
• Developing countries produced 48.62million tones of food fish valued at $ 84.03 billion

Top five aquaculture producers countries (2009)
China was the top producer of fish through aquaculture. The other four countries in the top five positions are given in the table below.
1) China ------- 34.78
2) India --------- 3.79
3) Vietnam ----- 2.66
4) Indonesia ----1.73
5) Thailand ------1.39