Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture

Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Capture fishery production is the volume of wild fishcatches landed for all commercial, industrial, recreational and subsistence purposes.

Country/area
Aquaculture production
tonnes 2022
Capture fisheries
tonnes 2022
Afghanistan11,150.00 t2,000.00 t
Albania8,812.00 t8,739.50 t
Algeria5,208.00 t80,790.00 t
American Samoa18.00 t1,311.13 t
Andorra0.00 t
Angola2,336.00 t469,336.00 t
Antigua and Barbuda20.00 t3,230.00 t
Argentina6,022.03 t847,752.70 t
Armenia24,000.00 t1,000.00 t
Aruba1.50 t172.00 t
Australia125,230.52 t165,059.23 t
Austria4,718.72 t350.00 t
Azerbaijan466.00 t1,790.00 t
Bahamas1.00 t9,345.22 t
Bahrain56.00 t19,836.55 t
Bangladesh2,731,070.00 t2,027,661.00 t
Barbados5.50 t851.54 t
Belarus7,164.40 t356.00 t
Belgium243.00 t18,710.00 t
Belize1,130.00 t204,764.23 t
Benin4,550.00 t76,105.00 t
Bermuda392.00 t
Bhutan190.88 t9.00 t
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina3,959.90 t305.00 t
Botswana171.00 t38.00 t
Brazil738,881.00 t758,512.00 t
British Virgin Islands1.00 t1,134.44 t
Brunei5,020.00 t16,060.00 t
Bulgaria9,510.78 t5,594.38 t
Burkina Faso894.00 t30,044.00 t
Burundi540.00 t19,935.00 t
Cambodia330,600.00 t533,450.00 t
Cameroon10,118.00 t299,035.00 t
Canada166,463.00 t704,176.80 t
Cape Verde35.00 t7,758.94 t
Cayman Islands88.00 t125.00 t
Central African Republic215.00 t29,000.00 t
Chad120.00 t107,000.00 t
Chile1,524,149.00 t2,690,091.50 t
China75,388,640.00 t13,179,077.00 t
Colombia204,941.98 t107,570.00 t
Comoros18,933.33 t
Congo976.60 t64,134.19 t
Costa Rica16,772.41 t33,668.70 t
Cote d'Ivoire6,200.00 t99,943.34 t
Croatia27,156.05 t63,683.17 t
Cuba15,389.40 t14,534.50 t
Curacao0.00 t8,826.80 t
Cyprus7,593.90 t1,301.02 t
Czechia19,259.00 t3,381.00 t
Democratic Republic of Congo
Denmark37,921.20 t458,193.00 t
Djibouti3,120.50 t
Dominica2.50 t290.00 t
Dominican Republic3,750.00 t18,010.00 t
East Timor1,125.00 t6,706.60 t
Ecuador1,123,048.00 t688,326.25 t
Egypt1,552,430.00 t440,197.00 t
El Salvador12,919.00 t60,114.99 t
Equatorial Guinea15.00 t6,610.15 t
Eritrea4.00 t1,590.54 t
Estonia800.81 t73,938.75 t
Eswatini100.00 t65.00 t
Ethiopia1,070.00 t101,400.00 t
Fiji211.00 t32,626.20 t
Finland16,280.60 t122,684.00 t
France200,490.31 t534,875.50 t
French Polynesia1,752.49 t11,582.99 t
Gabon87.00 t31,010.00 t
Gambia42.00 t53,946.50 t
Georgia2,743.20 t197,788.38 t
Germany26,545.00 t179,721.00 t
Ghana132,682.00 t519,627.28 t
Gibraltar1.00 t
Greece142,007.58 t65,494.80 t
Greenland307,055.00 t
Grenada26.00 t1,855.61 t
Guam108.00 t351.50 t
Guatemala42,313.40 t16,256.64 t
Guinea1,180.00 t334,870.00 t
Guinea-Bissau15.00 t63,835.00 t
Guyana953.40 t36,253.45 t
Haiti1,685.00 t16,710.00 t
Honduras73,193.00 t20,193.00 t
Hong Kong3,361.20 t77,199.98 t
Hungary18,947.76 t4,597.03 t
Iceland51,362.00 t1,434,724.50 t
India10,235,300.00 t5,539,025.00 t
Indonesia14,633,869.00 t7,398,555.50 t
Iran
Iraq23,000.00 t44,550.00 t
Ireland44,014.00 t203,538.73 t
Isle of Man3,041.00 t
Israel13,840.00 t2,055.00 t
Italy132,660.90 t143,645.53 t
Jamaica945.00 t12,529.49 t
Japan942,560.20 t2,967,756.20 t
Jordan2,582.00 t675.00 t
Kazakhstan9,438.33 t42,691.92 t
Kenya28,898.00 t145,801.47 t
Kiribati2.00 t203,294.05 t
Kuwait464.00 t1,886.00 t
Kyrgyzstan20,698.30 t31.00 t
Laos
Latvia869.91 t61,508.00 t
Lebanon938.00 t2,620.00 t
Lesotho1,836.26 t79.00 t
Liberia1,375.00 t29,337.99 t
Libya10.00 t32,585.00 t
Liechtenstein0.00 t
Lithuania4,859.01 t106,922.15 t
Luxembourg0.00 t
Macao1,500.00 t
Madagascar25,127.60 t127,190.09 t
Malawi7,148.00 t186,865.36 t
Malaysia574,182.25 t1,318,358.50 t
Maldives155,205.45 t
Mali8,830.00 t110,365.91 t
Malta18,050.54 t2,809.21 t
Marshall Islands6.34 t91,636.30 t
Mauritania780,382.80 t
Mauritius1,545.30 t33,284.19 t
Mexico289,618.53 t1,683,375.80 t
Micronesia (country)
Moldova
Monaco1.00 t
Mongolia0.00 t
Montenegro1,087.00 t855.00 t
Morocco2,310.00 t1,590,644.20 t
Mozambique5,539.00 t456,374.53 t
Myanmar1,197,078.00 t1,864,730.00 t
Namibia340.00 t415,668.90 t
Nauru0.50 t106,750.00 t
Nepal87,385.00 t21,000.00 t
Netherlands39,430.00 t298,622.00 t
New Caledonia1,456.00 t4,207.91 t
New Zealand106,152.00 t346,317.56 t
Nicaragua31,568.50 t53,732.32 t
Niger500.00 t47,670.00 t
Nigeria259,106.00 t784,124.00 t
North Korea
North Macedonia1,814.20 t447.00 t
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway1,648,468.80 t2,613,634.20 t
Oman3,468.00 t748,355.50 t
Pakistan165,475.00 t500,045.25 t
Palau10.00 t813.07 t
Palestine727.00 t4,195.00 t
Panama11,847.21 t186,644.98 t
Papua New Guinea2,462.00 t237,730.06 t
Paraguay20,000.00 t17,905.00 t
Peru140,930.62 t5,368,100.50 t
Philippines2,349,252.00 t1,771,247.20 t
Poland46,110.00 t178,522.94 t
Portugal20,968.00 t159,890.56 t
Puerto Rico11.00 t1,581.29 t
Qatar97.85 t18,439.00 t
Romania11,210.78 t6,256.42 t
Russia348,187.00 t4,991,530.00 t
Rwanda12,202.00 t32,735.00 t
Saint Kitts and Nevis4.00 t670.00 t
Saint Lucia209.43 t1,442.65 t
Saint Martin (French part)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa14.00 t9,589.24 t
San Marino0.00 t
Sao Tome and Principe5,703.37 t
Saudi Arabia119,844.70 t64,262.99 t
Senegal1,585.10 t533,771.20 t
Serbia5,776.47 t2,379.00 t
Seychelles0.00 t137,838.33 t
Sierra Leone145.00 t215,140.00 t
Singapore4,745.21 t207.40 t
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
Slovakia2,614.00 t1,895.00 t
Slovenia1,643.70 t272.26 t
Solomon Islands11,879.30 t47,838.09 t
Somalia30,000.00 t
South Africa11,355.02 t473,450.50 t
South Korea
South Sudan47.00 t47,000.00 t
Spain276,070.80 t809,094.44 t
Sri Lanka59,080.29 t332,622.70 t
Sudan9,000.00 t44,250.00 t
Suriname45.00 t33,695.00 t
Sweden11,327.20 t152,028.08 t
Switzerland2,500.00 t1,485.93 t
Syria1,755.00 t4,430.00 t
Tajikistan2,248.00 t2,425.00 t
Tanzania120,621.00 t38,650.00 t
Thailand1,001,181.00 t1,385,491.40 t
Togo1,151.00 t21,505.22 t
Tonga100.00 t1,326.03 t
Trinidad and Tobago7.40 t13,069.01 t
Tunisia20,926.06 t128,705.38 t
Turkey514,823.00 t335,002.90 t
Turkmenistan175.00 t15,097.00 t
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu1.00 t42,781.00 t
Uganda101,377.00 t444,935.00 t
Ukraine14,630.00 t22,720.93 t
United Arab Emirates3,524.96 t65,510.00 t
United Kingdom
United States478,823.94 t4,262,836.00 t
United States Virgin Islands
Uruguay91.00 t68,781.65 t
Uzbekistan130,274.00 t54,999.98 t
Vanuatu4.00 t88,117.33 t
Venezuela
Vietnam5,170,374.50 t3,590,003.00 t
Yemen10.00 t178,190.00 t
Zambia75,648.00 t109,428.00 t
Zimbabwe8,353.01 t26,161.00 t
Other
Channel Islands1,190.00 t2,290.00 t
East Asia and Pacific (WB)102,115,650.00 t36,116,268.00 t
Europe and Central Asia (WB)4,011,815.50 t14,301,021.00 t
European Union (27)1,121,303.60 t3,657,529.00 t
Faeroe Islands108,745.00 t605,910.10 t
High-income countries6,702,477.00 t21,979,342.00 t
Latin America and Caribbean (WB)4,260,571.00 t12,980,116.00 t
Low-income countries188,256.60 t2,384,740.20 t
Lower-middle-income countries24,854,208.00 t23,504,542.00 t
Middle East and North Africa (WB)1,769,242.10 t3,433,856.20 t
Middle-income countries120,044,560.00 t63,624,084.00 t
North America (WB)645,286.94 t4,967,405.00 t
South Asia (WB)13,289,651.00 t8,577,568.00 t
Sub-Saharan Africa (WB)843,079.90 t7,611,929.00 t
Upper-middle-income countries95,190,350.00 t40,119,544.00 t
World126,935,300.00 t87,988,170.00 t
Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture

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