Report: Sustainable seafood production grows to 23 million metric tons

Between 2003 and 2015, certified sustainable seafood (both aquaculture and wild catch) grew from 500,000 metric tons (0.5 percent of global production) to 23 million metric tons (14 percent of global production) at a rate of 35 percent per a year, or 10 times faster than the growth of global seafood production over the same time period, according to the new The State of Sustainability Initiatives Review: Standards and the Blue Economy report from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs.

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