More aquatic animals farmed than fished in 2022 in world first – UN

The total volume of fish, shrimp, clams and other aquatic animals that is harvested from farming has topped the amount fished in the wild from the world’s waters for the first time ever (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

The total global volume of fish, shrimp, clams and other aquatic animals that are harvested by farming has topped the amount fished in the wild from the world’s waters for the first time ever, the United Nations has reported.

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), in its latest report on fisheries and aquaculture – or farming in water – says the global catch and harvest brought in more than 185 million tonnes of aquatic animals in 2022, the most recent year for which statistics are available.