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Overcoming the Aquaculture Shortfall in 2030

GLOBAL – Speaking at the World Seafood Congress in Grimsby, UK, Stephen Hall, WorldFish, explains the organization’s mission to reduce hunger and poverty by improving fisheries and aquaculture and how we must deal with aquaculture’s projected deficit if we are to feed a growing population, writes Lucy Towers.

Twenty per cent of animal protein intake for 3 billion people is fish and those who depend the most on fish are also those who are most food/nutrition insecure.

We know that aquaculture will play a big role in the future to help feed these people, but do we know how much fish we actually need to produce to satisfy the real need.

Projections show that by 2030, 109 million Metric Tonnes (MT) will come from aquaculture and 61 million MT from capture…

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