Conference Name:Youth for the Coast training programme Delhi Forum and National Fishworkers Forum, 22-26 March 2021
Date: 24-03-2021
Abstract: Global fish production in 2018 was 179 million tonnes, (value of USD 401 billion) of which 46 percent (value USD 250 billion) came from aquaculture production. Aquaculture accounts for 52 percent of fish for human consumption.
• Including China, Asia accounts for 69 percent of fish production.
• Fish exports accounted for 37 percent of total production (value USD 164 billion)
• Maximally sustainably fished stocks were 59.6 percent in 2017 (down from 90 percent in 1974) and 6.2 percent underfished stocks. Stocks fished at unsustainable levels were 34.2 percent (10 percent in 1974). (Note: 78.7 percent of current marine fish landings come from biologically sustainable stocks)…
