Is aquaculture restoring fish in the wild?

A major turning point in human history was reached in 2014. That was the first year that people ate more farmed fish than wild, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation stated in its ‘The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture’ report.

We humans still caught more wild fish (measured by weight) than we farmed in 2014, but 12% of fish production went to non-people-food uses such as fish meal, which in turn was fed mostly to farm animals, including fish.

The FAO has predicted that aquaculture will surpass wild-caught in terms of overall production in 2021.