FAO: fish breeding has reached its peak

The industrial fish breeding increased by 6.6 percent annually over the past 30 years. The annual 0.7 kilograms per capita fish consumption, therefore, has now increased to 7.8 kilograms. But the resources are finite, the expansion also has its limits.

Already there are signs of the exhaustion of the resources. In the past years, the sector grew by a lesser extent.. In other words, growth is slowing – warns FAO.

According to the FAO; fish breeding has reached its peak, that means an annual 90 million tons annually. 32 percent of the world's fish stocks are “overfished”, extinction threatens certain populations – reports piacesprofit.hu.