High hopes for fishing hitting sustainable levels as rise in aquaculture decreases over-exploitation of wild stocks
Humans have never eaten so much fish and other seafood, but nearly half of it is no longer caught wild but is grown in farms, says the United Nations.
New figures from the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) suggest while around 80m tonnes of fish were caught “wild” in 2011-12, global aquaculture production set another all-time high at more than 90 million tonnes, including nearly 24 million tonnes of edible plants like seaweeds.
In total, the world harvested an extra 10m tonnes of aquatic food in 2012 compared to the previous year, says the report.
“Fish farming holds tremendous promise in responding to surging demand for food which is taking place due to global population growth,” the report says…
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