Study provides a broad assessment on the impacts of aquaculture development on marine wild fisheries in all coastal provinces
Globally, China is the largest capture fisheries and aquaculture producer, accounting for more than 19 percent of global marine capture fishery production and more than 61 percent of global aquaculture production. Aquaculture in China has developed rapidly in the past few decades and the country is the leading aquaculture producer in the world since the 1990s.
How China develops its aquaculture sector and whether such development can relieve pressure on wild fisheries are past and future contentious issues. Both sides on this argument have their own views, and neither side has directly explored the statistical relationship between China’s aquaculture and marine wild fisheries resources. But there are no disputes on the existence of a link, positive or negative, between China’s aquaculture and wild fish resources in the past decades…
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