![]() Graph shows farmed fish production rising sharply since 1990 while wild fishing has risen far less, in some cases not at all There are constraints on good places to site fish farms, a lack of high-quality water, struggles with cost and availability of food for the farmed species, disease and pest pressure, and the impact of the climate crisis and resulting weather variability. As well as peak fish, “peak aquaculture” might be just around the corner. While the industry did experience rapid growth decades ago, its five-year moving-average annual growth rate peaked at 14.1% in 1996 and is now at about 2%, according to a new study in Frontiers in Marine Science. Aquaculture’s growth rate has been in decline since 1996. So is aquaculture the solution to the looming seafood shortage?Īs it turns out, the answer is no. But overfishing, particularly bottom trawling, which destroys corals and other habitat, is a major culprit. There are several reasons why ocean life faces such a serious health crisis, including marine pollution, especially hundreds of millions of tons of plastics global heating affecting water temperature and emissions of CO 2 making the oceans 26% more acidic. Quite simply, we are removing fish from the ocean at a far greater rate than they can naturally replenish.” Another 45% are overfished and there isn’t enough information about the rest to know if the current fishing levels are sustainable, according to 2021 Global Fishing Index, which states: “Over the past 50 years, the world has witnessed a massive decline in the health of its fisheries. ![]() An assessment of 1,439 wild-fish populations found that 10% are on the brink of collapse. Virtually all of the oceans are overfished, or at their maximum capacity.
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