Nearly half of all fish produced for food is now farmed rather than caught in the wild, a new UN report reveals.
The biennial State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (Sofia) report shows that stocks continue to be depleted by overfishing
The amount of fish produced by farming rose in the past two years while the number of wild fish stocks ranked as over-fished, depleted or fully exploited increased to 80 per cent of the world’s stocks.
The figures released in Rome by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) indicate that the amount of fish caught at sea has reached a plateau and may be in decline when suspected over-reporting by China is taken into account.
On the other hand, the amount of fish raised by aquaculture rose to 47 per cent of all produced for food. Continue reading ‘Farmed fish set to overtake wild caught fish for first time’
