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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.

Aquaculture
metric tons
Capture fisheries
metric tons
Country or region
2011
2022
Absolute Change
Relative Change
2011
2022
Absolute Change
Relative Change
World81,622,320.00 t126,935,300.00 t+45,312,980.00 t+56%92,212,320.00 t87,988,170.00 t-4,224,150.00 t-5%
Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture

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