Limits To Growth/world fisheries and aquaculture production and utilization

Capture fisheries and aquaculture supplied the world with about 142 million tonnes of fish in 2008. Of this, 115 million tonnes was used as human food, providing an estimated apparent per capita supply of about 17 kg (live weight equivalent), which is an all-time high. Aquaculture accounted for 46 percent of total food fish supply, a slightly lower proportion than reported in The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2008 owing to a major downward revision of aquaculture and capture fishery production statistics by China, but representing a continuing increase from 43 percent in 2006.

Production (Million tonnes)	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Inland
Capture	8.6	9.4	9.8	10.0	10.2	10.1
Aquaculture	25.2	26.8	28.7	30.7	32.9	35.0
Total Inland	33.8	36.2	38.5	40.6	43.1	45.1
Marine
Capture	83.8	82.7	80.0	79.9	79.5	79.9
Aquaculture	16.7	17.5	18.6	19.2	19.7	20.1
Total Marine	100.5	100.1	98.6	99.2	99.2	100.0
Total Capture	92.4	92.1	89.7	89.9	89.7	90.0
Total Aquaculture	41.9	44.3	47.4	49.9	52.5	55.1
Total World Fisheries	134.3	136.4	137.1	139.8	142.3	145.1

This production is used as follows:

Utilization (Million tonnes)	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Human consumption	104.4	107.3	110.7	112.7	115.1	117.8
Non-food uses	29.8	29.1	26.3	27.1	27.2	27.3
World Population (billions)	6.4	6.5	6.6	6.7	6.8	6.8
Per capita food fish supply (kg)	16.2	16.5	16.8	16.9	17.1	17.2