World Fisheries

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World Fisheries
By Leonard Lovshin Department of Fisheries and
Allied Aquacultures Auburn University, Alabama
April, 2006
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World Fishery Harvest in 2003
Aquaculture
Capture fishery
40.3 MMT of fish and shellfish
90.2 MMT of fish and shellfish
Total finfish and shellfish 132.5 million
metric tons ( MMT )
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Wild capture harvest has remained stable while
aquaculture harvest of finfish and shellfish has
increased 286 in 10 years
Harvest of finfish and shellfish from the wild
and from aquaculture, 1992 - 2002
 
 

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World Fishery Harvest in 2003
Capture fishery 90.2 MMT
Human consumption 84
Animal feeds 16
75.6 MMT
14.4 MMT
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World Fishery Harvest in 2003
Fish and shellfish available for human
consumption
35 of fish and shellfish consumed by humans is
from aquaculture
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World Fishery Harvest in 2003
Ten top capture fishing countries in 2003, MMT

• China 16,756,000
• Peru 6,090,000
• 3. USA 4,939,000
• 4. Indonesia 4,675,000
• 5. Japan 4,596,000
• 6. India 3,689,000
• 7. Chile 3,622,000
• 8. Russian Fed 3,281,000
• 9. Thailand 2,817,000
• 10. Norway 2,550,000

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Favorite U.S. Seafoods in 2004, lb/person
1. Shrimp 4.2 6. Tilapia - 0.7 2. Canned
tuna 3.3 7. Crab - 0.63 3. Salmon 2.2 8.
Cod 0.60 4. Pollock - 1.3 9. Clams - 0.47
5. Catfish - 1.1 10. Flatfish - 0.33
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World per capita consumption of seafood in 2003
16.2 kg/yr
U.S. per capita consumption of seafood in 2003
7.4 kg/yr
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World Fishery Trade in 2002
World export value U. S. 58.2 billion 82 of
imports are to developed countries 1. Japan
imports 22 of the world total value 2. U. S.
imports 16 of the world total value Seafood
trade represents a 28.5 billion dollar profit to
developing countries Important seafoods
traded by value 1. Shrimp 18 2.
Groundfish 10 3. Tuna 9 4.
Salmon 8
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U. S. Balance of edible seafood trade in 2004
U. S. edible seafood exports in 2004 value
3.7 billion dollars
U. S. edible seafood imports in 2004 value
11.3 billion dollars
U. S. trade deficit in edible seafood 7.6
billion dollars
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Aquaculture
World Fish, Shellfish and Seaweed Culture, by
country in 2003 ( MMT )
10. Chile


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What is Aquaculture ?
Young fish
Fish harvest from a cage
Fish feed pellets
Harvesting fish from a pond
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Aquaculture began in China
Fish ponds in China
Carp harvest in 2004 was 13,853,031 MT
71 of world aquaculture harvest
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Atlantic Salmon
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World Harvest of Farmed Salmon in 2004 is
1,367,122 MT Leading world producers of farmed
salmon are 1. Norway 565,902 MT 2. Chile
442,610 MT 3. United Kingdom 158,099 MT 4.
Canada 96,774 MT
the leading U. S. producer at 10,589 MT
World salmon capture from the oceans in 2004 was
804,014 MT
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Marine Shrimp
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World harvest of farmed marine shrimp in 2004 was
2,476,023 MT
China 935,944 MT Thailand 390,000 MT Vietnam
275,569 MT Indonesia 238,567 MT India
133,020 MT
Marine shrimp capture from oceans in 2004 was
3,603,000 MT
41 of marine shrimp consumed was farmed
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Tilapia
Red Tilapia
Nile Tilapia
Outdoors in Ecuador and Indonesia
Indoors in the U. S.
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Over 4,298,768 MT of farmed tilapia were harvest
world-wide in 2004. China 43 of world
harvest U. S. tilapia Production 2004 13,803
MT
295,000,000 MT equivalent of whole tilapia
imported into the U. S. in 2005
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Rainbow trout
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World Production of Rainbow Trout in 2004
504,876 metric tons Leading Producers in
2004 1. Chile 126,265 MT 2. Norway
63,000 MT 3. France 35,283 MT 4. Italy
30,227 MT
United States in 2004 24,937 MT
68 of U. S. harvest from Idaho
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Oysters
Rafts used to suspend oysters in baskets
Oyster bed on ocean floor
Harvesting a rope of oysters
Raking oysters from bed
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World yield of whole oysters was about 4,603,717
MT in 2004
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Pearl Oyster
Inserting a nucleus
Removing a pearl
Japan is the leading producer of pearls
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Marine Algae
World farmed harvest in 2004 16,225,410 MT
Algae farm
China harvested 71 of total
Sushi with black algae wrapper
Cultivated kelp
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Channel Catfish
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Channel catfish harvest
277,300 MT processed in 2005
Mississippi accounts for 65 of farmed catfish
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Red Swamp Crawfish
Crawfish ponds
Harvesting traps
Rice fields
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2004 U. S. farmed harvest 36,657 MT 90 of
crawfish harvest in the U. S. is from
Grading crawfish
Transport to market alive
Louisiana
Boiled crawfish
Removing tail meat
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Bait Minnows
Golden Shiner
Fathead minnow
Arkansas
Nearly 1,600 bait minnow farms are in operation
in the United States. The largest bait farm in
the U.S. has about 2,500 acres of water and
produces about 3 million pounds per year.
6,329,000 kg with a value of 57 million dollars
was produced in the U.S. in 2003
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Ornamental fishes
goldfish
800 varieties of freshwater fishes worth 43.2
million were harvested in Florida in 1999
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