Medidas de Gestao das Pescarias Marinhas e Aquicultura 2019 The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018 | Page 33

THE STATE OF WORLD FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE 2018
AQUACULTURE
PRODUCTION
included 54.1 million tonnes of finfish (USD 138.5
billion), 17.1 million tonnes of molluscs (USD 29.2
billion), 7.9 million tonnes of crustaceans
(USD 57.1 billion) and 938 500 tonnes of other
aquatic animals (USD 6.8 billion) such as turtles,
sea cucumbers, sea urchins, frogs and edible
jellyfish. Farmed aquatic plants included mostly
seaweeds and a much smaller production volume
of microalgae. The non-food products included
only ornamental shells and pearls.
Production and growth
Global aquaculture production (including aquatic
plants) in 2016 was 110.2 million tonnes, with the
first-sale value estimated at USD 243.5 billion.
The first-sale value, re-estimated with newly
available information for some major producing
countries, is considerably higher than previous
estimates. In general, FAO’s data for aquaculture
production volume are more accurate and reliable
than those for value.
Since 2000, world aquaculture no longer enjoys
the high annual growth rates of the 1980s and
1990s (10.8 and 9.5 percent, respectively) (Figure 6).
Nevertheless, aquaculture continues to grow
faster than other major food production sectors.
Annual growth declined to a moderate 5.8
percent during the period 2001–2016, although
double-digit growth still occurred in a small
number of individual countries, particularly in
Africa from 2006 to 2010.
The total production included 80.0 million tonnes
of food fish (USD 231.6 billion) and 30.1 million
tonnes of aquatic plants (USD 11.7 billion) (Figure 5)
as well as 37 900 tonnes of non-food products
(USD 214.6 million). Farmed food fish production
FIGURE 5
WORLD AQUACULTURE PRODUCTION OF FOOD FISH AND AQUATIC PLANTS,
1990–2016
100
80
60
40
20
0
20
40
1990
1995
Other animal species (all aquaculture)
Crustaceans (inland aquaculture)
Crustaceans (marine and coastal aquaculture)
2000
2005
Molluscs (all aquaculture)
Finfish (marine and coastal aquaculture)
Finfish (inland aquaculture)
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2010
Aquatic plants (all aquaculture)
2015