World fish production

World fish production

Fish are harvested through commercial fishing and aquaculture.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the world harvest in 2005 consisted of 93.2 million tonnes captured by commercial fishing in wild fisheries, plus 48.1 million tonnes produced by fish farms. In addition, 1.3 million tons of aquatic plants (seaweed etc) were captured in wild fisheries and 14.8 million tons were produced by aquaculture. [ [http://www.fao.org/fishery/ FAO: Fisheries and Aquaculture] ]

Capture production by species

The following table shows the capture production by groups of species (fish, crustaceans, molluscs, etc) in tonnes.

Projected production

The following table shows the fish production in 2004 and projections for 2010 and later simulation target years. [FAO (2005) Part 4.] All figures, other than percentages, are in million tonnes.

ee also

* Fishing by country
* Wild fisheries
* Ocean fisheries
* Population dynamics of fisheries

Notes

References

* FAO (2005) [http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/y5852e/y5852e00.htm "Review of the state of world marine fishery resources."] Fisheries technical paper T457, ISBN 95-5-105267-0
* FAO (2007) [http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/A0699e/A0699e00.htm "State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2006."] Fisheries and Aquaculture Department. ISBN 978-92-5-105568-7


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