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The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2004
China remains by far the largest producer, with reported fisheries production
of 44.3 million tonnes in 2002 (16.6 and 27.7 million tonnes from capture fisheries
and aquaculture, respectively), providing an estimated domestic food supply of
27.7 kg per capita as well as production for export and non-food purposes. However,
there are continued indications that capture fisheries and aquaculture production
statistics for China may be too high, as indicated in The State of World Fisheries and
Table 2
Fisheries production and utilization: world excluding China
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 1
(million tonnes)
PRODUCTION
INLAND
Capture 5.8 6.2 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5
Aquaculture 5.3 6.0 6.1 6.6 6.9 7.5
Total inland 11.1 12.2 12.6 13.1 13.4 14.0
MARINE
Capture 64.7 70.3 72.0 69.8 70.1 67.0
Aquaculture 4.4 4.7 4.8 5.1 5.1 5.5
Total marine 69.1 75.0 76.8 74.9 75.2 72.5
TOTAL CAPTURE 70.4 76.5 78.5 76.3 76.6 73.5
TOTAL AQUACULTURE 9.8 10.7 10.9 11.7 12.0 13.0
TOTAL FISHERIES PRODUCTION 80.2 87.2 89.4 88.1 88.7 86.5
UTILIZATION
Human consumption 62.3 62.9 63.7 65.6 65.5 66.8
Non-food uses 17.9 24.3 25.7 22.5 23.2 19.7
Population (billions) 4.7 4.7 4.8 4.9 5.0 5.0
Per capita food fish
supply (kg)
13.3 13.2 13.2 13.4 13.2 13.3
Note: Excluding aquatic plants.
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Preliminary estimate.