Our World In Data is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity Number 1186433). U.S. seafood exports declined 18 percent in value in the January to June period, when compared to the past five years. Which types of fish are we harvesting sustainably, and where are we overfishing? Z., Shepon, A., Passarelli, S., Free, C. M., Viana, D. F., & Thilsted, S. H. (2021). Which countries produce the most seafood? 90% was brought ashore and used for human food or animal feed. Gephart, J. The Outdoor Recreation Economy Nears One Trillion in Economic Output, New Economic Report Showcases Outdoor Recreation Economys Strength & Resiliency During Difficult Year, New Government Report Reaffirms Outdoor Recreations Role as a Significant Economic Driver. Most farmed seafood needs less land and freshwater, and causes less nitrogen and phosphorus pollution. The other 10% was thrown back into the water. A fish stock is a subpopulation of a particular species of fish with common parameters such as location, growth and mortality. They defined a collapse as the case where fish catch was below 10% of their historical recorded maximum. Its difficult to discriminate for the particular species that you want. Sustainability in this view means catching as much fish as possible without depleting fish populations any further. Catch may be low because populations have been depleted. This means 92% is unprotected. The distinction between farmed fish and wild catch is similar to the difference between raising livestock rather than hunting wild animals. The research community had previously been divided: one camp had a more optimistic take on the status of the worlds fisheries and prospects for the future; one had a more pessimistic take. Comparing fish to other types of fish is useful. Are things getting worse? We know much less about the status of fish stocks across Asia, Africa and South America. Their web platform Sea Around Us is an excellent resource to understand global fisheries. This increase in fish catch was interrupted by the two World Wars: we see the dramatic declines in catch shown on the chart. Show publisher information Get in touch with us. Our second school of thought that fish are a resource would consider the optimal level to be the red dot. The United States is a global leader in sustainable, world class fisheries. This is the amount of fish we have in the oceans. How much of our total protein, from plant and animal sources comes from seafood? That is shown by the second bar. This doesnt include the sustainability of wild fish stocks, which is obviously another important metric that we need to consider. Although exploitation rates varied year-to-year, this generally increased through the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. 21% of anglers who take fishing trips say that they do so alone. We see that fish catch started to increase from around 1700 through to the mid-20th-century. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 59.5 million people globally were employed as fishers (catching wild fish) or fish farming (aquaculture) in 2018. You need at least a Starter Account to use this feature. Previously we looked at the aggregate of tuna stocks; we can zoom in further and look at particular regional stocks. Here were looking at the median across all of the assessed studies.21 These impacts are shown per kilogram of edible weight. One-quarter of the shelf in the Irish Sea was. Peru's fishing activity from January 1 to Jun 5, 2020. But it usually comes at an environmental cost. The chart here show the distribution of wild fish catch by country. Regulations in marine protected areas can vary but includes interventions such as no fishing zones; restrictions on fishing such as the type of gear that can be used; bans or restrictions on activities such as mining; and regulations on inputs to the ocean from rivers and industrial effluents. Many have compared this area to the Amazon Rainforest.26 To some extent, the areas do match: the Amazon rainforest spans approximately 5 million km2. One method is small-scale scientific surveys in specific regions. This bottom component is what were most interested in. Our World in Data is free and accessible for everyone. Back in 2009, it covered 166 of the worlds fish stocks which accounted for around 20% of global fish catch.15 Today it covers over 1,200 fish stocks, which is more than 50% of global catch. It estimates that around one-third of the worlds fish stocks are overexploited: these populations are declining because were catching more fish than can reproduce. One option is therefore to ban specific types of gear rather than banning the practice completely. What is the status of global fish stocks? 80% of the continental shelf in the Adriatic Sea was trawled. Fish stocks tend to be a lagging indicator to fishing intensity. But this does not tell us how much fish was sourced sustainably. But aquaculture production has grown quickly. "NOAA Fisheries stands with our fishermen, seafood industries, and coastal communities who have suffered great economic hardship this year due to COVID-19, added Oliver. The seafood industry is not only an important source of nutrition for many; it is also a key source of income for at least 59 million people. Statistics In the charts here we see the average per capita consumption of fish and seafood across the world.6 The highest seafood consumers are countries including Iceland, the Maldives and Hong Kong which consume over 70 kilograms per person, and in some cases upwards of 90 kilograms. Fishers sometimes bring by-catch back to land, to eat or sell. Or, substituting lower-impact meats such as chicken and pork for beef and lamb. An optimal value is one. We can break this down by wild catch and fish farming. In the 1960s, aquaculture was relatively niche, with an output of a few million tonnes per year. How did they reach this conclusion? We see this in the chart. American Sportfishing Association Our goal is to help all those up and down the U.S. seafood supply chain rebound, recover and strengthen resilience as we plan strong returns to sea in 2021 and beyond. The periods before and after the March 16th COVID-19 stay-at-home order by the Peruvian government are displayed and the start date of the first anchovy fishing season on May 13, 2020 noted. More of our seafood now comes from aquaculture than from wild catch. Others experienced a lot. Directly accessible data for 170 industries from 50 countries and over 1 million facts: Get quick analyses with our professional research service. In blue we see the more recent data from Worm and Hilborns collaboration of fish stock (abundance) data. China is the worlds largest seafood producer, producing more than 60 million tonnes in 2019. On the y-axis we have fish biomass, given as two variables. Thurstan, R. H., Brockington, S., & Roberts, C. M. (2010). The width of the bar shows us how variable this can be: it tells us what the largest and smallest impact can be for each species. Improved satellite and GPS tracking technologies mean that scientists can now map trawling patterns at high-resolution. The statistics presented in this publication include the tonnage and value of all landings of sea fish and shellfish by Scottish vessels, all landings into Scotland, the rest of the UK and abroad; and the size and structure of the Scottish fishing fleet and employment on Scottish vessels. Fishing and Seafood Industries Saw Broad Declines Last Summer Due to COVID-19, The U.S. fishing and seafood sector generated more than $200 billion in annual sales and supported 1.7 million jobs in recent years. Second, we have fish stocks. Fishing pressure in many of these regions is intense. Around 10% of the worlds seabed is shallower than 1000 meters this threshold includes all of the worlds continental shelves and areas that wed fish in. We see this across other species too: see shrimp, for example. In other words, if we assume taxa continued to collapse at a constant rate, it would reach zero by mid-century. Except that for land-based animals, farming is many thousand years old while it was very uncommon for seafood until just over 50 years ago. Globally, bottom trawling rapidly increased through the second half of the 20th century. Global demand for seafood might have increased, but wild fish populations are finite. We see this in the map, which details the coverage of fish stocks in the RAM database. We will look at whats happening to global fish stocks in a follow-up article. Environmental science & technology, 44(23), 8821-8828. A stock where we catch 1000 tonnes is counted the same as a stock where we catch 10 tonnes. However, growing concern about the depletion of wild fish stocks has led to a significant reduction in recent decades, to allow populations to recover. By the end of second quarter 2020, 78 percent of aquaculture, aquaponics, and allied businesses reported COVID-19 impacts with 74 percent experiencing lost sales. Over time, gear has been adapted to reduce by-catch. But with wild fish populations we have another dimension to consider: whats happening to their population numbers. Market size of the fishing industry in the United States from 2013 to 2022 with a forecast for 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. Stock A is sustainable and were catching 80 tonnes of fish per year. It now produces over 100 million tonnes. (2006). The TAC for Cod in this year 2020-2021, for example, is 256,593 tons. How many people are employed in these industries? Its hard to understand fish stocks if large numbers of fish kills are going unmonitored. Seafood for Everyone: A Conversation with Janet Coit, NOAA Proposes New Measures to Combat lllegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing, Forced Labor in the Seafood Supply Chain, Scientists sample for pollock. Now that we have some understanding of what each of these methods mean, lets look at how common each is. By weight, the top species landed by the UK fleet in the UK and abroad in 2021 were: Mackerel (209,000 tonnes) Herring (77,000 tonnes) Blue whiting (74,000 tonnes) Nature, 1-6. Globally, employment in the industry has increased by 60%, but with much faster growth in aquaculture. If it is partly fed by wild fish, perhaps more fish farms means more pressure on wild fish stocks? If you harvest too much then fish stocks decline. . We see a steep rise in fish catch over the first half of the 20th century. How much of the biota is affected depends on a couple of factors, including the type of gear used; the type of sediment; and what lifeforms live there. A few groups are not faring so well. For example, they might be used to set catch limits at levels that are sustainable given the dynamics and health of the fish population. You can see these rates by region here. Managing bycatch and discards: how much progress are we making and how can we do better? It includes all of the inputs into production, such as fish feed, or fuel use on fisheries. Compared to other meats, seafood has a low environmental footprint when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, land use, and nutrient pollution we looked at this in a related article. In the chart we see the same metric as before fish stocks measured by biomass across different types. Rome. The analysis noted outdoor seating at restaurants in warm months and a pivot to direct delivery at some supermarkets provided an outlet for some aquaculture sales. But the downside is that they tend to have larger negative impacts, with more bycatch (catch of fish that are not the target species) and in some cases, damage to the seabed. Its an incredibly efficient way to catch seafood. It increased a lot from the 1950s through to the 1980s. This is incompatible with restoring populations to their historical levels, because we cant do that and catch lots of fish at the same time. The quantity is mentioned in tons. In the chart we see the amount in each zone that is protected and unprotected.44. Passing a trawl over the seabed can have quite a severe impact on the organisms that live there. This is unsustainable. By 2008, this reached 32%. The effects of 118 years of industrial fishing on UK bottom trawl fisheries. Many types of seafood have a lower impact than chicken. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(4), 2218-2224. There were many rebuttal papers challenging this position. The impacts across the seafood products are shown in the charts. Fresh product exports experienced steeper declines when compared to frozen product exports. 5% went to land-based livestock such as cows, pigs and chickens. On the flip-side, a ratio of 0.5 means you get 2 fish back from every fish you put in. The fact that trawling tends to have a high discard rate, and it is the method used to catch a lot of our fish, means that around half of global fish discards come from bottom trawling. The other two-thirds, though, are sustainable and not in decline. The tension between these two schools becomes obvious. Aquacultures reliance on wild fish has been weakening. We often hear that tuna are being overfished to extinction. Thats good news. By the end of second quarter 2020, 78 percent of aquaculture, aquaponics, and allied businesses reported COVID-19 impacts with 74 percent experiencing lost sales. These are critical questions, but to answer them we need to first agree on what sustainability actually means when it comes to fishing. There are various reasons why fishers might not want these fish. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2011.00435.x. (ed. This has increased pressure on fish stocks across the world. Now we see that not only are there large differences in the median between each. The Maximum Sustainable Yield is the sweet-spot where we can catch as much fish as possible without reducing that fish population below the most productive level. This inter-war decline was due to a couple of factors: fishing became much more dangerous; and vessels were redirected from fishing towards military and other uses.3 Even after the World Wars, fish catch began to dramatically decline over the second half of the 20th century. There are also large differences in how variable emissions can be. Fisheries Research, 95(1): 4046.Hall, S.J. It experienced broad declines in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 public health crisis, according to a new, Restaurant closures, social distancing protocols, and other safety measures also contributed to losses in other sectors of the seafood economy. First as the global distribution, shown on the map. All the software and code that we write is open source and made available via GitHub under the permissive MIT license. Fisheries and aquaculture outlook 2021. Lets first look at the stock line. Sampled fish are taken to assess the age and population growth rate of the population. In our related article we take a closer look at different concepts of sustainable fishing, and how this sweet spot the maximum sustainable yield is defined. Help us do this work by making a donation. It, as wed expect, is a stock variable. But in reality, it is still the most efficient method of catching seafood which is why so many countries continue to use it. Most notably China, which produced 66 million tonnes in 2018. This has been good news for the health of global fish stocks. Some areas are only trawled once every few years. The following are visual snapshotsfrom the 2020 Fisheries of the United States Report. Most of us eat fish; hundreds of millions rely on it for nutrition and income across the world. For the best experience, please use a modern browser such as Chrome, Firefox, or Edge. Learn more about how Statista can support your business. Lets first look at the question of how much of the seafloor is affected by trawling. Additionally, researchers estimate that in the U.S., two billion pounds of annual marine catch is discarded as bycatch, representing 17 to 22 percent of U.S. marine catch. The case of the UK, Portugal and Spain are shown in the chart. The ILO and FAO estimate that between 24 000 and 32 000 deaths occur annually in the pursuit of fishing - making fishing the most hazardous occupation in the World. If intensity is greater than one then were overfishing. Science, 325(5940), 578-585. Fisheries that are not carrying out these assessments will struggle to maintain this balance. What can we do to reduce the impacts of trawling? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(31), 8301-8306. This is reflected in the fact that the Black Sea is very overfished. This is what is called the maximum sustainable yield. Eliminating by-catch completely might be unrealistic. In the aftermath they formed a collaborative project facilitated by the National Center for Ecological Synthesis and Analysis (NCEAS) to get to the bottom of it. In 2006, the fisheries researcher Boris Worm and his colleagues published a paper in Science on the trends in biodiversity loss in the worlds oceans.10 The year 2048 and prospects for global collapse, was only mentioned once, and featured in the conclusion of the article: Our data highlight the societal consequences of an ongoing erosion of diversity that appears to be accelerating on a global scale. This raises the important question of what the authors meant by the term collapse and how it was calculated. Fisheries Research, 109(1): 8088.Valdemarsen, J.W. Outlook tables - Agricultural commodities: March quarter 2021 XLSX. Mother Monk Seal Births Pup in Waikk for the Second Time, Hawaiian monk seal RK96 (Kaiwi) and her newborn pup. But dredging sometimes referred to as bottom trawling has the largest negative impact. (2019). Is that an environmentally-friendly option?. We can limit the use of trawling and, in fact, many countries have. Newfoundland and Labrador . This balance can change from season-to-season, or even month-to-month as environmental factors change and affect the dynamics of the ecosystem. Dollars). A., Pauly, D., & Raicevich, S. (2021). The Fishadelphia team. Or in the content of the total seabed area, its 1.4%. What has changed is where bottom trawling is happening. That matters for where you source wild-caught fish from: sourcing from European or American fisheries might be a safer choice if you want to ensure they are sustainable. As we will soon see, trawling does kill a lot of life on the seabed, but recovery times can be very quick: in the order of a few months to years. This is for several reasons. Catch tells us how many were taking out. Effect of aquaculture on world fish supplies. Its possible to get all of the protein we need from plant sources. Each year NOAA Fisheries compiles key fisheries statistics from the previous year into an annual snapshot documenting fishings importance to the nation. If you choose wild-caught salmon you could be picking a low-carbon, or a high-carbon protein source. Many of the tuna stocks that were the biggest concern have managed to turn things around. UNEP-WCMC and IUCN (2021), Protected Planet: The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and World Database on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (WD-OECM) [Online], September 2021, Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN. on 05/12/2022, Stay informed of all the latest regional news around NOAA Fisheries. Land use, nitrogen and phosphorus emissions, and freshwater use are only shown for farmed seafood wild-caught fish do not really create these environmental impacts. Wild-caught fish such as salmon or tuna can have a lower or higher footprint depending on where and how its caught. This makes sense. Its stocks have now fallen below one, and look to be continuing downwards. Many types have a lower carbon footprint than chicken (those that are higher are around 20-30% higher). Nature, 580(7801), 39-51. This is the median impact of chicken raised in the US or Europe. projected in their earlier paper has not come true. If that were true, within 5 years almost all of the shallow seabed would be trawled. That means that even if bycatch did not decline, the amount of discards would. The chart here shows the status of the worlds fish stocks from 1974 through to 2017. But if you pick farmed salmon you are almost guaranteed that it will be relatively low-carbon. This strategy sets out our approach to managing Scotland's sea fisheries from 2020 to 2030, as part of the wider Blue Economy. This is because fish stocks can be very different sizes. Seaspiracy is far from the first source to repeat this claim: Google empty oceans by 2048 and you will find hundreds of thousands of results. That is, essentially, the amount of wild fish there. Well, they plotted the historical decline in collapsed taxa, as shown in the chart. In 1974, just 10% were overexploited. Credit: Dr. Talia Young. Towed dredges dig twice as deep, and one-fifth of organisms are killed off. The median of each as we looked at above is shown as the thick black line for each bar. While losses vary by sector, by region and by industry, data and information from this report may help businesses and communities assess losses and inform long-term recovery and resilience strategies. Some countries have implemented a no-discard policy a ban on discards at sea.40 This is sometimes called a landing obligation, which means that fishers must keep all of their caught fish on board and bring them back to land to declare as landings. Butto fully show the overall condition of our fisheriesthese statistics must be looked at in combination with other biological, social, and economic factors of ecosystem and ocean health. This is the maximum sustainable yield, where were catching as much fish as possible without reducing fish populations below the most productive level. (2021). But, based on what we know (and especially, the fact that we dont know a lot), the consensus is that many of these fish stocks are not in a healthy place. The development of steam trawlers in the 1880s allowed vessels to fish further offshore, for longer periods of time, and with gear that could reach deeper into the ocean. Many countries have reduced the use of trawling. Fish farms are fed from other sources. File size. In the same way that most of us view elephants or monkeys. In other words: if you view fish as a resource you probably want fish populations to be less than half the size of pre-fishing size. [Online]. In our related article we look at which are managing well, and which are doing poorly. Post-farmgate impacts are not included. Baits & lures are expected to register a revenue-based CAGR of 4.7% from 2020 to 2027. If you are an admin, please authenticate by logging in again. If you get greedy and catch more than this, then you deplete populations for future generations. You can add more regions using the blue add region button. The world produces around 200 million tonnes of fish and seafood every year. Oxford University Press. We could catch more fish without fish populations declining. As we see in the chart, aquaculture production increased by 250% between 2000 and 2015. Researchers Dirk Zeller, Daniel Pauly, Maria Palomares, can reconstruct this data from estimates of how much discards are captured from different fishing methods.38 For example the percentage of catch from bottom trawls that ends up being discarded. Eurostat statistics on fisheries contain data for the EU, the Member States, the United Kingdom, Iceland and Norway on: catches of fish products made by vessels in fishing regions; aquaculture production (including organic aquaculture ), both in marine and fresh-water; landings of fishery products in ports; Fishing fleet. To their credit, these two sides soon joined forces, working collaboratively to get a much larger and rigorous overview of the status of the worlds fish populations. To do this, we need to catch very little (if any) fish. This text provides general information. It doesnt tell us about what fish we might want to buy or avoid. The amount of fish we discard has declined a lot in recent decades. Al Roker with Danielle Blacklock, Director of NOAA's Office of Aquaculture. Are you interested in testing our business solutions? Again, this is based on emissions and impacts up to the farmgate. But we also want to know how seafood compares to other protein foods. This means all types of trawling account for just over one-third of global fish catch. But the big difference comes from the spread of emissions: wild-caught can range anywhere from 1.7 to 17 kg CO2e. to incorporate the statistic into your presentation at any time. We just saw examples of this across Europe and Japan. These results look at the impacts on-farm and off-farm, up to the farmgate. What do these results tell us about how seafood fits into a sustainable diet? The differences here were dependent on the method used the shallower otter trawls caused less damage and recovered more quickly than the deep hydraulic trawling and the environmental context such as the type of seabed. Boris Worm fell into the latter. Licenses: All visualizations, data, and articles produced by Our World in Data are open access under the Creative Commons BY license. Fish farming on the other hand is growing very rapidly, from 1960 until 2015 it has increased 50-fold to over 100 million per year. We see this in the other chart which plots discards since 1950. Data is collected on how many fish are being caught. This is why I dont find the comparison between dredging and rainforest clearing to be a particularly helpful one. Thats the average across different types of trawling. To better serve retailers and the trade, ASA conducted a survey of independent tackle retailers in February 2023 inquiring about their January-December 2022 business experience. The types of gear used for trawling can have very different impacts. (For fisheries trade statistics, refer to Tables 23 to 27.) There are several methods we use to better-understand the health of fish stocks. In the charts here we see the breakdown of global wild fish catch by the type of fishing gear used. The report is conducted by RBFF and the Outdoor Foundation. (For the fisheries outlook table, refer to the 'Fisheries' tab.) When defining the sustainability of fisheries we need to know three terms: Overfished: this is sometimes termed overexploited. Fish stocks are healthy across most of these regions. The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020. If theyre over the limit, they will have to throw some fish back. Fish and Fisheries 13 (4) 380-398. Fish and Fisheries, 6(2): 134155. On the trade front, international markets were negatively affected by disruptions in harvesting, processing and shipping. Gillnets and longlines account for much less of global fish catch. Not all aquaculture species are fed from animal sources, but many are. We see this in the chart, which shows global fish catch since 1950. Sustainability in action. Clicking on the following button will update the content below. But the headline summary is that the status of wild fish stocks is mixed. Global analysis of depletion and recovery of seabed biota after bottom trawling disturbance. Whats also important to note is that the same areas are often trawled again and again.27 What this means is that its not a different 5 million km2 thats trawled every year. This comes from a combination of wild fish catch and fish farming. Second, many aquaculture species are not fed fishmeal or oils at all. Although these rates have stabilized or even declined in the last few years. We dont have good global records that go so far back in time, but we can draw upon data from some rich countries that have statistical records dating back centuries. 2020 (a paper we covered here) as a sign that biomass and fishing pressure are both moving in the right direction in assessed stocks. This does not focus on the amount of fish being caught, but the abundance of fish in each population. For the ecosystem to get back to its pre-trawling state takes a few years, if its left alone. It covered over 1690 fish farms, and 1000 records from fisheries. The second is to do large-scale stock assessments. This is split into landings catch that is brought back to land and discards, the catch that is thrown back into the ocean. The database is missing data from most Asian, African and Latin American fisheries. Scientists then used these three inputs abundance, biology, and catch to model the population dynamics of the fish stock. That means were not including inedible parts such as shells. The median emissions for farmed and wild-caught salmon are similar; farmed has a slightly lower footprint of 5.1 versus 6.9 kg CO2e per kg. In the coming months and years, scientists and economists will work to obtain a more complete picture of COVID-19s impact on U.S. seafood and the Blue Economy. Bottom-trawling where large fishing nets are dragged along the seabed is very high in countries such as China, India and Indonesia. Global marine fisheries discards: A synthesis of reconstructed data. Fisheries of the United States compiles key statistics into a snapshot of fishings importance to the nation. There is a strong relationship between income and overall meat consumption: as we get richer we tend to eat more meat. The Australian Fisheries and Aquaculture Statistics report contains comprehensive information on commercial fishing and aquaculture in Australia covering fisheries production, trade data and consumption and employment statistics, with data up to and including 202021. This policy is implemented by the European Union, and was a core part of its Common Fisheries Policy reform in 2013. The most recent analysis of global fish stocks published by the same group in 2020 reaffirms this result.12 There are certainly fish stocks that are of major concern. Rates varied year-to-year, this is based on emissions and impacts up to the nation depleting fish any. This increase in fish catch since 1950 a follow-up article 114 ( 31 ) 8821-8828. Big difference comes from the 1950s through to the past five years the assessed studies.21 these are. 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