{"id":11608,"date":"2024-03-18T23:47:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T23:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/?page_id=11608"},"modified":"2024-03-19T00:01:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T00:01:12","slug":"aquaculture-facts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/aquaculture-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquaculture Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"11608\" class=\"elementor elementor-11608\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-801d11c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"801d11c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-edc954e\" 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jet-nav__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/what-is-aquaculture\/\" class=\"menu-item-link menu-item-link-depth-0 menu-item-link-top\"><span class=\"jet-nav-link-text\">What is Aquaculture?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page jet-nav__item-11620 jet-nav__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/types-of-aquaculture\/\" class=\"menu-item-link menu-item-link-depth-0 menu-item-link-top\"><span class=\"jet-nav-link-text\">Types of Aquaculture<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page jet-nav__item-11619 jet-nav__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/benefits-of-aquaculture\/\" class=\"menu-item-link menu-item-link-depth-0 menu-item-link-top\"><span class=\"jet-nav-link-text\">Benefits of Aquaculture<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page jet-nav__item-11618 jet-nav__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/impact-of-aquaculture\/\" class=\"menu-item-link menu-item-link-depth-0 menu-item-link-top\"><span class=\"jet-nav-link-text\">Impact of Aquaculture<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page jet-nav__item-11617 jet-nav__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/aquaculture-facts\/\" class=\"menu-item-link menu-item-link-depth-0 menu-item-link-top\"><span class=\"jet-nav-link-text\">Aquaculture Facts<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page jet-nav__item-11616 jet-nav__item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eschooltoday.com\/learn\/aquaculture-terms\/\" class=\"menu-item-link menu-item-link-depth-0 menu-item-link-top\"><span class=\"jet-nav-link-text\">Aquaculture Terms<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/nav>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9c69138 elementor-widget-divider--view-line 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It was recently estimated that aquaculture provides 43% of all the fish consumed by humans today.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Fisheries products are the world\u2019s most widely traded foods, with commerce dominated by developing countries. The total value of world capture fisheries production in 2009 was US$93.9 billion, a value greater than the global combined net exports of rice, coffee, sugar, and tea.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The second most consumed aquaculture species in the EU are salmon and mussels. Nine out of ten mussels eaten in the EU are farmed. Almost all of EU aquaculture production is consumed in Europe. Norway is the EU&#8217;s principal supplier of aquaculture products.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The United States imports (mostly from Asia) 91% of its seafood, about half of which is from aquaculture. This results in a large and growing annual seafood trade deficit of more than 10.4 billion.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Some 58.3 million people were engaged in the primary sector of capture fisheries and aquaculture in 2012. Of these, 37 percent were engaged full-time. In 2012, 84 percent of all people employed in the fisheries and aquaculture sector were in Asia, followed by Africa (more than 10 percent). 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