Feed Bussiness Worldwide: July, 2013
Asian aquaculture under siege
The most Asian of protein lines faces input shortages, financing challenges and food safety problems of its own making.
by Eric J. BROOKS
After years of being long on promise and potential, the world aquaculture sector has come of age. The UN FAO reports
that as of 2012, aquaculture production supplied more than 50% of the world’s seafood, the first time it ever, aquaculture exceeded both wild catch fisheries production and beef production, while rivalling the output of pork, which it is expected to overtake one day.
A protein line innovated in the west, aquaculture is the most Asian of agribusiness lines: China accounts for 70% of global production, and Asia accounts for 85% of all cultivated seafood production. With wild catches stagnant or declining in virtually every corner of the world, aquaculture output will rise for two simultaneous reasons.
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