GLOBEFISH Market Profile provides a snapshot of key data relevant to production and trade in fisheries and aquaculture products.

Improvements to aquaculture production, lower prices, and changing cultural preferences expected to drive up demand for fish, seafood and seaweed, according to new research.

The report addresses why and how farmed tilapia can and should play an important role in solving sub-Saharan Africa’s challenge to produce sufficient food for its growing population.

A new FAO report provides an overview of the algae sector with a focus on its contribution and potential in global aquaculture development.

The second edition of Benchmark Insights brings together scientists, academics, producers and investors to talk about how views on animal welfare have evolved in aquaculture and our society, and the impact this is having in the industry.

Aquaculture production is expected to overtake capture fisheries production in 2027 and to account for 52% of all fish production by 2030, according to the report.

FAO’s new Food Outlook report tracks the risks associated with rising import bills amid a broad upswing in prices.

In the upcoming five years, the OIE will bring together different actors from the international community to coordinate joint actions in response to the challenges met by the aquatic sector.

The report estimates that the coronavirus pandemic hit the sector by decreasing income sources and increasing costs.

Shrimp production declined from record production of nearly 800,000 tons in 2019 to about 650,000 tons in 2020 in India, according to a white paper of the Society of Aquaculture Professionals.

Twenty years on from an analysis that sparked controversy by highlighting fish farming’s damage to ocean fisheries, the same team led by Stanford University has found the industry has made significant strides toward sustainability.

The report focuses on trends in the production, trade, use and market of specific pathogen-free (SPF) L. vannamei broodstock.

Global aquaculture production is expected to fall by 1.3% due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first fall recorded by the sector in several years.

A new EUMOFA analysis provides a better understanding of RAS within the EU's aquaculture sector, in particular its size and potential for growth.

“The Blueprint for Future Proofing Shrimp Supply Chains” is a challenge to businesses that buy, sell, produce or benefit from farmed shrimp to achieve sustainable goals by 2025.

The first Monitoring and Evaluation report shows for the first time the impact of certified responsible aquaculture, including clear improvements in the environmental performance of salmon farms in Norway, Canada and Chile, and shrimp farms in Vietnam.

World aquaculture production attained another all-time record high of 114.5 million tons in live weight in 2018 with a total farmgate sale value of $263.6 billion, according to FAO’s 2020 SOFIA report.

The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) is the flagship publication of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department. This premier advocacy document is published every two years to provide policy-makers, civil society and those whose livelihoods depend on the sector a comprehensive, objective and global view of capture fisheries and aquaculture, including associated policy issues.

By definition, aquatic genetic resources (AqGR) for food and agriculture include DNA, genes, chromosomes, tissues, gametes, embryos and other early life history stages, individuals, strains, stocks and communities of organisms of actual or potential value for food and agriculture. This report is the first global assessment of the status of AqGR.  Overall, 92 countries contributed, covering approximately 96 percent of global aquaculture production and over 80 percent of global capture fisheries production.

The State of the World's Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture reviews our use of aquatic genetic resources both in capture fisheries and in aquaculture, in areas under national jurisdiction.