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This database contains statistics on production volume and value by species, country or area, fishing area and culture aquatic environment.
Aquaculture
is understood to mean the farming of aquatic organisms including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Farming implies some form of intervention in the rearing process to enhance production, such as regular stocking, feeding, protection from predators, etc. Farming also implies individual or corporate ownership of the stock being cultivated. For statistical purposes, aquatic organisms which are harvested by an individual of corporate body which has owned them throughout their rearing period contribute to aquaculture while aquatic organisms which are exploitable by public as a common property resource, with or without appropriate licences, are the harvest of fisheries
Aquaculture production
specifically refers to output from aquaculture activities, which are designated for final harvest for consumption. At this time, harvest for ornamental purposes is not included. |
| Available Formats & Information Products | | |
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| Global analyses, sector studies |
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| Same audience as generally mentioned under the Fishery Global (Data and) Statistics programme. |
| Status | | |
The collection of statistics on aquaculture production was added to the fishery statistics collection activity programme in 1985. Prior to that, data on total fisheries production - combing both capture and aquaculture - were collected and compiled. FIES has recently completed the process of separating the datasets for the period 1950-1984 so that a time series spanning more than fifty years is now available for analyzing trends in aquaculture production. The process was based on national reporting when available and on other sources of historical information. Data on the value of aquaculture production are available from 1984 onwards. An objective for the aquaculture database is to include collected data on aquaculture production units (such as the surface area of ponds, number of cages, number of pens), type of culture (intensive, semi-intensive, extensive) and hatchery production, in addition to the exisiting statistics on production quantity and value by species, country and aquatic environment.
* China 1997-2006 provisional data subject to revision. |
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