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Marine shrimp farming is an aquaculture business for the cultivation of marine shrimp or prawns [Note 1] for human consumption. Although traditional shrimp farming has been carried out in Asia for centuries, large-scale commercial shrimp farming began in the 1970s, and production grew steeply, particularly to match the market demands of the United States, Japan and Western Europe.
Statistics are at the core of the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), its mandate and strategic goals. Article I of its Constitution states that “The Organization shall collect, analyse, interpret and disseminate information relating to nutrition, food and agriculture.
Shrimp grow-out pond on a farm in South Korea. Commercial marine shrimp farming began in the 1970s, and production grew steeply, particularly to match the market demands of the United States, Japan, and Western Europe. The total global production of farmed shrimp reached more than 2.1 million tonnes in 1991, representing a value of nearly US$9 ...
A farmer constructing a shrimp farm in Pekalongan, Indonesia. A freshwater prawn farm is an aquaculture business designed to raise and produce freshwater prawns or shrimp 1 for human consumption. Freshwater prawn farming shares many characteristics with, and many of the same problems as, marine shrimp farming.
Over the same time span, production increased from 1.23 million tonnes to 15.31 million tonnes. [16] In 2005, worldwide aquaculture production including aquatic plants was worth US$78.4 billion. Of this, the Chinese production was worth US$39.8 billion. In the same year there were about 12 million fish farmers worldwide.
FAO (2010) State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2010 Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Rome. ISBN 978-92-5-106675-1; FAO Yearbook (2008) Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics 2006 Rome. ISBN 978-92-5-006067-5; FAO: Summary tables of Fishery Statistics Rome. Retirved 28 November 2009. FAO: Fishery resources Rome.
Capture (blue) and aquaculture (green) production of Giant river prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) in thousand tonnes from 1950 to 2022, as reported by the FAO [2] Macrobrachium rosenbergii, also known as the giant river prawn or giant freshwater prawn, is a commercially important species of palaemonid freshwater prawn.
The FAO Country Profiles is a multilingual [1] web portal that repackages the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) information archive on its global activities in agriculture and food security in a single area and catalogues it exclusively by country and thematic areas.