05 February 2011

Aquafarming ~ Economist Spots Fishy China...

The Economist spotlights UN FAO data about Aquafarming...
"The Food & Agriculture Organisation, a UN agency, reckons that the world produced 145.1m tonnes of fish in 2009. About 38% of this came from aquaculture, or fish farming. The rest consisted of fish caught in the wild, mostly at sea. In 2008 over three-fifths of the world’s farmed fish came from China. India was the second-largest producer, but its output was just over a tenth of China’s."
Also interesting to note Norway and Chile whose production is vastly disproportionate to human population. Seafood firm Marine Harvest is a big player there.

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