China tops world seafood production for 20 years

 

 

China has produced the most seafood products in the world for 20 consecutive years, accounting for 70 percent of the world's total production.

 

In 1990, China became the first country in the world to have a higher farmed seafood production than wild catch output. A series of measures implemented in China in 1986 promoted the sustained and rapid development of the fishery industry.

 

China's farmed seafood production currently accounts for 70 percent of its total seafood output. Water-efficient, and ecological and healthy cultivation modes have become China's mainstream aquaculture, according to China People's Daily.

 

In 2008, China had 9,971 seafood processing enterprises with a total processing capacity of 21.97 million tonnes.

 

Per capita of seafood products stood at 36 kg, 1.6 times higher than the world average, according to data issued by the Ministry of Agriculture.

 

Last year, China's fishery output value accounted for about 10 percent of its total farming output value. 

 

At present, China owns nearly 1,500 deep-sea fishing boats, which operate in the international waters of the three oceans and waters administrated by 32 countries, making the country one of the world's largest deep-sea fishery nation.

 

China has also signed 13 bilateral inter-governmental fishery cooperation agreements and six inter-departmental fishery cooperation agreements with relevant countries, joined eight inter-governmental international fishery organisations, and participated in the fishery activities of 12 multilateral international organisations.