World Fisheries

By

Leonard Lovshin
Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures
Auburn University, Alabama

April, 2006
 World Fishery Harvest in 2003
Aquaculture
Capture fishery

90.2 MMT of fish and shellfish 40.3 MMT of fish and shellfish

Total finfish and shellfish = 132.5 million metric tons ( MMT )

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

Year 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003

Wild
Capture, 86.6 91.7 92.0 93.5 93.9 87.3 93.2 94.8 93.2 90.2
MMT

Aquaculture,
17.9 20.8 24.6 26.8 28.6 30.9 33.3 35.6 39.2 40.3
MMT
World Fishery Harvest in 2003
Capture fishery = 90.2 MMT

Human consumption = 84 % Animal feeds = 16 %

75.6 MMT 14.4 MMT

 World Fishery Harvest in 2003

Fish and shellfish available for human consumption

Fish and shellfish from capture = 75.6 MMT

Fish and shellfish from aquaculture = 40.3 MMT

Total fish and shellfish = 115.9 MMT

35% of fish and shellfish consumed by humans is from aquaculture

World Fishery Harvest in 2003
Ten top capture fishing countries in 2003, MMT
1. China 16,756,000
2. 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
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
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

 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%
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

Aquaculture
World Fish, Shellfish and Seaweed Culture, by country in 2003
( MMT )

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
China India Philippines Japan Indonesia Viet Nam Bangladesh Korea Thailand Chile

27,767 2,191 1,449 1,327 1,229 968 857 840 773 633
What is Aquaculture ?
Young fish

Fish harvest from a cage

Fish feed pellets Harvesting fish from a pond

Aquaculture began in China
Fish ponds in China

Silver carp

Bighead carp
Common carp

Grass carp
Carp harvest in
2004 was
71 % of world
13,853,031 MT
aquaculture
harvest
Atlantic Salmon
 World Harvest of Farmed Salmon in the leading U. S.
2004 is: 1,367,122 MT producer at
10,589 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

World salmon
capture from
the oceans in
2004 was
804,014 MT
Marine Shrimp
 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
Tilapia

Red Tilapia

Nile Tilapia

Outdoors in Ecuador and

Indonesia

Indoors in the U. S.
Over 4,298,768 MT of farmed tilapia 
were harvest world­wide 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
Rainbow trout
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
Oysters
Rafts used to suspend
oysters in baskets

Oyster bed on ocean floor

Harvesting a rope of
oysters

Raking oysters from bed

World yield of whole oysters was
about 4,603,717 MT in 2004
United States France China
115,250 MT 3,750,910 MT Korea
149,765 MT
239,270 MT

Japan
234,151 MT
 Pearl Oyster

Inserting a nucleus

Removing a pearl

Japan is the leading

producer of pearls
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
Channel Catfish
Channel catfish harvest

277,300 MT
processed in 2005
Mississippi
accounts
for 65 % of
farmed
catfish
Red Swamp Crawfish
Crawfish ponds

Harvesting traps Rice fields

 2004 U. S. Grading crawfish
farmed harvest
36,657 MT

90% of crawfish
harvest in the U. S.
Transport to market alive is from:
Louisiana

Boiled crawfish
Removing tail meat
 Bait Minnows
Golden Shiner Fathead minnow

Arkansas

Nearly 1,600 bait minnow farms are in operation in

the United States.

6,329,000 kg with a
The largest bait farm in the U.S. has about 2,500 acres
value of 57 million of water and produces about 3 million pounds per
dollars was year.
produced in the
U.S. in 2003
Ornamental fishes
goldfish

Florida

800 varieties of
freshwater fishes
Tampa
worth $43.2 million
were harvested in
Florida in 1999
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