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| Croatia: Offshore mariculture to play a vital role in ensuring future seafood supplies |
| Sunday, 08 August 2010 08:54 | |||
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Global per capita consumption of fish has been increasing steadily from an average of 11.5kg during the 1970s, 12.5kg in the 1980s to 14.4kg in the 1990s. Consumption in the 21st century has continued to grow and preliminary figures from the FAO for 2007 and 2008 show a new increase to 17.1kg per capita. At the same time capture fisheries production has been about 90 million tonnes for each of the last fifteen years and chances of this increasing are remote. The source of growth in fish production is the freshwater and marine aquaculture industry which has been growing at 10% a year for the past 20 years. In 2008 aquaculture production was 53m tonnes, a volume that is expected to increase to almost 120m tonnes by 2020.
However, while the production of fish and seafood from aquaculture is expected to increase in the future, the industry is also facing a number of constraints that hamper growth. At the recently concluded offshore mariculture conference in Croatia delegates heard that one of the main problems is the lack of space for the industry to develop due to competition with other sectors including tourism, energy, as well as the proliferation of marine protected areas. One possible solution has been to move the industry offshore as has now become mandatory in
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