Aquaculture, also called aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other aquatic plants and animals of commercial value. As an industry it produced 130.9 million tonnes of output valued at 312.8 billion US dollars, with China, Indonesia, India, Vietnam and Bangladesh together accounting for 82 percent of total 2024 production. It is a distinct branch of the global food economy from wild catch fishing, supplying a growing share of the fish and shellfish consumed worldwide.
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Does farmed aquatic production now exceed wild catch?
Aquaculture production now exceeds capture fishery production.
Yes. Aquaculture production now exceeds capture fishery production, which makes farming a larger source of aquatic output than catching wild stock.
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Aquaculture, the farming of fish and seafood, is grouped with wild-catch fishing as the two branches of seafood production.
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Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. lotus).
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