Fish farmed in pens and ponds are to take over from freshly caught seafood on the world’s dinner tables and restaurant menus, with soaring prices and a growing appetite for high-end species triggering a boom in aquaculture.
A sharp shift towards farmed fish is the result of strong demand for seafood, stoked by the health benefits of eating fish and an increase in consumption across the developing world.
According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, per capita fish consumption of farmed fish is forecast to rise 4.4 per cent in 2014 from a year ago to an annual 10.3kg, rising for the first time above the equivalent figure for wild fish, which is predicted to fall 1.5 per cent to 9.7kg.
“Aquaculture has not only become a reality in its contribution to the food we eat, we are now eating more of it compared to wild fish,” says Audun Lem at the FAO…
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