Medidas de Gestao das Pescarias Marinhas e Aquicultura 2019 The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018 | Page 34

PART 1 WORLD REVIEW
Lack of reporting by about 35 to 40 percent of the
producing countries, coupled by insufficient
qualit y and completeness in some of the reported
data, hinders FAO from presenting a clearer and
more detailed picture of world aquaculture
development status and trends. FAO received just
below 120 national data reports for the 2016
reference year, representing 84.3 percent (67.5
million tonnes, excluding aquatic plants) of total
food fish production by volume; however, if
China is excluded the percentage is much lower.
FAO estimates for the non-reporting countries
account for 15.1 percent (12.1 million tonnes) of
the total production. The remaining data are
official statistics collected on an ad hoc basis
from a few countries that did not respond
officially to FAO’s request for national data.
The contribution of aquaculture to the global
production of capture fisheries and aquaculture
combined has risen continuously, reaching 46.8
percent in 2016, up from 25.7 percent in 2000. If
China is excluded, aquaculture’s share reached
29.6 percent in 2016, up from 12.7 percent in
2000. At the regional level, aquaculture
accounted for 17 to 18 percent of total fish
production in Africa, the Americas and Europe,
followed by 12.8 percent in Oceania. The share of
aquaculture in Asian fish production (excluding
China) increased to 40.6 percent in 2016, up from
19.3 percent in 2000 (Figure 7).
In 2016, 37 countries were producing more
farmed than wild-caught fish. These countries
are in all regions except Oceania, and collectively
they account for close to half of the world’s
human population. Aquaculture accounted for
less than half but over 30 percent of national total
fish production in another 22 countries in 2016.
Inland aquaculture
World production of farmed food fish relies
increasingly on inland aquaculture, which is »
FIGURE 6
AVERAGE ANNUAL GROWTH RATE OF AQUACULTURE PRODUCTION BY VOLUME
(excluding aquatic plants)
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
Asia, excluding China
2001–2016 (16 years)
China
Africa
2001–2005 (5 years)
Americas
Europe
2006–2010 (5 years)
| 18 |
Oceania
2011–2016 (6 years)
World, excluding China
World