"UN: Global fish consumption per capita hits record high" Topic
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| Tango01 | 10 Jul 2016 4:41 p.m. PST |
"Global per capita fish consumption has hit a record high, passing the 20kg per year mark for the first time, United Nations data has shown. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report said it was the result of improved aquaculture and reduced waste. It added that people, for the first time on record, were now consuming more farmed fish than wild-caught fish. However, the report's authors warn that marine natural resources continue to be overharvested at unsustainable levels. The data has been published in the FAO's biennial State of the World's Fisheries and Aquaculture (Sofia) report. Manuel Barange, director of FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy and Resources, welcomed the fact that global per capita fish consumption has passed the 20kg per year threshold…"
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| RavenscraftCybernetics | 10 Jul 2016 7:19 p.m. PST |
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| zippyfusenet | 11 Jul 2016 4:02 a.m. PST |
I came *this close* to posting that, Woody. Fish-farming is good, unsustainable over-exploitation, not so much. Sunday is grocery shopping day, so we had fresh fish for dinner last night. When I was a kid, it wasn't so easy to get here in the Ohio valley. My Daddy was from Boston, and I have his taste for ocean critters. |
Gunfreak  | 11 Jul 2016 4:14 p.m. PST |
We are closer to .5kg a year. And thats mostly fishballs and fishsticks. However we are probebly close to 50kg in pizza. |
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