Researched
Aquaculture overtakes wild catch
In 2022 aquaculture supplied 94.4 million tonnes of aquatic animals, 51 percent of the total and for the first time more than wild catch (FAO).
Open in the interactive tree →Carp farming in China is described in a text from about 475 BC, and Asia now accounts for over 90 percent of farmed output. Wild catch has been roughly flat since the late 1980s, so growth in supply has come from farming.
Prerequisites
- Animal domestication~9000 BC
- Irrigation~6000 BC
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- Feeding 10 billion peopleopenFarmed aquatic animals are a growing part of the protein supply