The global commercial production for human use of fish and other aquatic organisms occurs in two ways: they are either captured wild by

commercial fishing Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit, mostly from wild fisheries. It provides a large quantity of food to many countries around the world, but those who practice it as an industry must oft ...

or they are cultivated and harvested using aquacultural and

farming Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled peop ...

techniques. According to the

Food and Agriculture Organization The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)french: link=no, Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; it, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura is an intern ...

(FAO), the world production in 2005 consisted of 93.2 million

tonne The tonne ( or ; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. It is a non-SI unit accepted for use with SI. It is also referred to as a metric ton to distinguish it from the non-metric units of the short ton ( United State ...

s captured by

wild fisheries A wild fishery is a natural body of water with a sizeable free-ranging fish or other aquatic animal (crustaceans and molluscs) population that can be harvested for its commercial value. Wild fisheries can be marine ( saltwater) or lacustrine ...

, plus 48.1 million tonnes produced by

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s. In addition, 1.3 million tons of aquatic plants (

seaweed Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae. The term includes some types of ''Rhodophyta'' (red), ''Phaeophyta'' (brown) and ''Chlorophyta'' (green) macroalgae. Seaweed species such as ke ...

etc.) were captured in wild fisheries and 14.8 million tons were produced by

aquaculture 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 ...

. The number of individual fish caught in the wild has been estimated at 0.97-2.7 trillion per year (not counting fish farms or marine invertebrates).A Mood and P Brooke (July 2010)
Estimating the Number of Fish Caught in Global Fishing Each Year
FishCount.org.uk.

Marine and inland fisheries

Capture production by species

The following table shows the capture production by groups of species (fish,

crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean gro ...

s, molluscs, etc.) in tonnes.

Projected production

The following table shows the fish production in 2004 and projections for 2010 and later simulation target years.FAO (2005) Part 4. All figures, other than percentages, are in million tonnes.

Charts

Notes

References

* FAO (2005
''Review of the state of world marine fishery resources.''
Fisheries technical paper T457, * FAO (2006) tp://ftp.fao.org/fi/stat/summary/default.htm ''Yearbooks of Fishery Statistics Summary Tables''* FAO (2007
''State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2006''
Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Rome. * FAO (2009
''State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2008''
Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Rome. * FAO (2010
''State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2010''
Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Rome. * FAO Yearbook (2008) tp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/011/i0400t/i0400t.zip Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics 2006Rome. * FAO: tp://ftp.fao.org/FI/STAT/SUMM_TAB.HTM Summary tables of Fishery StatisticsRome. Retirved 28 November 2009. * FAO
Fishery resources
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