The Human Impacts Database

A collection of useful numbers for quantifying the impacts of the human presence on Earth.

Percentage of seafood harvest coming from aquaculture

This quantity comes from a time series measurement and the most recent value (2018) is reported.


Value:		≈ 46 % see this value in other units This is equivalent to... 0.46
HuID:		61233
Relevant Year(s):		2018
Summary:		Percentage of total seafood harvest coming from aquaculture (farming), as opposed to wild capture. Here, the term seafood aggregates the fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic animals, but excludes aquatic mammals, reptiles, seaweeds and other aquatic plants. Aquaculture accounted for 46 % of the total production and 52 % of seafood for human consumption. At the regional level, aquaculture accounted for 17.9 % of total seafood production in Africa, 17.0 % in Europe, 15.7 % in the Americas and 12.7 % in Oceania. The share of aquaculture in Asian seafood production (excluding China) reached 42.0 % in 2018, up from 19.3 % in 2000.
Method:		The volume and value data in Global aquaculture production are primarily official statistics obtained by FAO's Statistics and Information Service (FIPS) directly from nations. Data reported by countries may have been supplemented by verifiable information from other sources, including academic reviews, consultants reports and other specialist literature. Information on capture production is collected annually from relevant national offices concerned with fishery statistics, by means of a system of standardized forms, which list for each country the relative species items and fishing areas breakdown.
Source:		FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) Fisheries Commodities Production and Trade 1976-2018. (2020)
Dataset:		Total animal seafood mass by source (FAO_FishStatJ_total_mass_source.csv) global resolution
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Original Data License:		CC-BY-NC-SA IGO 3.0 (FAO Modified)
Added By:		ilopezgo