Fish Consumption
The essential data about fish consumption explained in 3 infographics. Detailed charts covering fish consumption by region, fishing & aquaculture, aquaculture environments by country and more. Learn the truth about fish consumption and how it relates to the state of the world on The Global Education Project website with un-biased facts from the most reliable sources.
In 2015, fish accounted for about 17% of animal protein, and 7% of all proteins, consumed by the global population. Since 1961, the global average annual increase in fish consumption for food has outpaced population growth and exceeded consumption of...
Fisheries and aquaculture; fish consumption and utilization; what countries claim as Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs), and how heavily the world's fish stocks are being exploited; oil in the ocean; coral reefs.
The high protein feed for farmed salmon is largely composed of ocean caught fish meal and meat offal from poultry and hog processing. Because of bio-accumulation of toxins in the feed, "consumption of farmed salmon even at relatively low frequencies results...
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