It’s the world’s leading producer of seafood and the only country in the world where aquaculture production exceeds wild catch. And in 2002 China also became the world’s number one exporter of seafood, thanks to aquaculture.
Production from China’s fish farms accounted for 47.6 million metric tons of the 64.5 million metric tons of seafood which China produced in 2014. Output from aquaculture grew at 4.9 percent in 2014 while overall seafood output grew 4.5 percent. The vast bulk of China’s aquaculture is accounted for by carp but production is growing fast in the case of higher-value species like shrimp, eel, yellow croaker and shellfish.
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