World Fish Production and Top Fish Producing Countries
-2022-23
World Fish Production-2022-23
This article will cover the following topics
1. Introduction
2. Total Fish Production of the world
3. Top fish producing countries in the marine sector
4. Top fish producing countries in
Inland sector
5. Top 5 major species finfish
produced in the world
6. Top 5 major species finfish
produced through aquaculture
7. Top 5 major species shellfish
produced in aquaculture
8. Top 5 major exporters of fish countries
Introduction:
Fishery (plural: fisheries) is a physical activity leading to catching, processing or selling of fish,
shellfish (molluscs, crustaceans) and
other aquatic animals and plants.
According to Food and Agricultural Organization ( FAO) Rome, a fishery is an activity
leading to capture of fish wild water resources or raising of fish through aquaculture system
.
Fisheries are mainly categorized in
three types Inland fisheries, Marine fisheries, and fisheries through aquaculture
Inland Fisheries consist of
A)
Freshwater fisheries resources like, River, Reservoirs, Lakes, etc
B) Coldwater
water fisheries resources
2 . Marine water Fisheries include Oceans, estuaries
etc
3 Aquaculture: Aquaculture include culturing of both
freshwater and marine fishes
The main
of fish and fisheries is to improve food and nutrition security, upsurge income
and increase livelihoods, support economic growth and protect our environment
and natural resources.
THE
STATE OF WORLD FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE 2020 (SOFIA-2020)
Food and Agricultural organization
( FAO) after every two years released world fisheries statistics official document in the form THE STATE OF WORLD FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE
2020( SOFIA) for fisheries policy marker, fisheries researcher, and students to
get information about world fisheries statistics
like total fish production of the world, top fish production countries, top fish
and shellfish cultured throughout the world etc. Here below we are providing some fisheries statistics
of the world as per THE STATE OF WORLD FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE 2020( SOFIA)
Total Fish Production of the world-2020
|
Total Fish Production 2020 |
177.8mmt |
|
Total capture |
93.4 |
|
Total Aquaculture |
87.5 |
|
Per capital consumption(Kg) |
20.3% |
2. 2. Total
Capture production-2020
|
Marine |
78.8 |
|
Inland |
11.5 |
|
Total Capture |
93.4 |
3.
3. Total Aquaculture production-2020 :
|
Marine |
33.1 |
|
Inland |
54.4 |
|
Total Capture |
87.5 |
4.
4. Top 5 major marine capture fish producing countries:
People’s Republic of China (PRC) or China
is leading fish production and are at first place followed Indonesia (India is on 6th number -5%)
|
Sr.No |
Country |
Percentage of |
|
1 |
China |
15% |
|
2 |
Indonesia |
8% |
|
3 |
Peru |
7% |
|
4 |
Russian Federation |
6% |
|
5 |
USA |
5% |
5. 5. Top
5 major Inland capture fish producing countries:
C China is leading Inland fish production and are
at first, place followed India
|
Sr. |
Country |
Share (%) |
|
1 |
India |
16% |
|
2 |
China |
13% |
|
3 |
Bangladesh |
11% |
|
4 |
Myammar |
7% |
|
5 |
Uganda |
5% |
|
Sr.No |
Fish Species |
Share (%) |
|
1 |
Anchoveta (Engraulis ringens) |
7% |
|
2 |
Alaska pollock or walleye pollock |
5% |
|
3 |
Skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) |
4% |
|
4 |
Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus |
2% |
|
5 |
Blue whiting, Micromesistius poutassou |
2% |
7. 7. Top 10 major finfish species produced through aquaculture-2020:
Carp
fishes are dominant in aquaculture production across the globe. Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) popular known
as Chinese carp is at first place followed by Silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) .
Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella)
|
Sr.No |
Fish species |
Share |
|
1 |
Grass carp |
11.8 |
|
2 |
Silver carp |
10 |
|
3 |
Nile tilapia |
9 |
|
4 |
Common carp |
8,6 |
|
5 |
Catla Catla |
7.2 |
|
6 |
Big head carp |
6.5 |
|
7 |
Carassius spp. |
5.6 |
|
8 |
Striped catfish, Pangasianodon hypophthalmus |
5.1 |
|
9 |
Roho labeo, Labeo rohita |
5.1 |
|
10 |
Clarias catfishes, Clarias spp |
2.1 |
Rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss : 1.5 % only
8. Top 5 major shellfish species produced through aquaculture:
Among the shellfish aquaculture, Whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei, formerly Penaeus vannamei), also identified as Pacific white shrimp or King prawn is dominant in aquaculture production across the globe.
|
Sr.No |
Shellfish species |
Share (%) |
|
1 |
Whiteleg shrimp, Penaeus vannamei |
51.7 |
|
2 |
Red swamp crawfish, Procambarus clarkii |
22 |
|
3 |
Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis |
6.9 |
|
4 |
Giant tiger prawn, Penaeus monodon |
6.4 |
|
5 |
Giant river prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii |
2.6 |
algae
|
Sr.No |
Aquatic algae |
|
1 |
Japanese kelp (Laminaria japonica) |
|
2 |
Eucheuma seaweeds (Eucheuma |
|
3 |
Gracilaria seaweeds (Gracilaria spp.) |
|
4 |
Wakame (Undaria pinnatifida) |
|
5 |
Nori (Porphyra spp.) |
|
1 |
China |
|
2 |
Norway |
|
3 |
Vietnam |
|
4 |
Thailand |
|
5 |
USA |
11. Top 5 major importers of fish
|
1 |
USA |
|
2 |
Japan |
|
3 |
China |
|
4 |
Italy |
|
5 |
France |
5 world bivalve producing countries
|
1 |
China |
|
2 |
Chile |
|
3 |
Japan |
|
4 |
Republic of Korea |
|
5 |
United States of America |
For further information about world Fisheries statistics,
Kindly visit: http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/ca9229en
World Fish Production and Top Fish Producing Countries
-2022-23
Top Fish Producing Countries
-2022-23