China generates 70.2% of global aquaculture production, according to statistics recently released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).


The FAO also noted that all top ten producers of aquaculture products are located in Asia.


Ichiro Nomura, assistant director-general of the Fisheries Department of the FAO, is quoted in the China Daily newspaper as saying: “I’ve been impressed by China’s progress in agriculture including aquaculture.”


Nomura did stress however that global aquaculture production needs to be adequately planned and appropriately managed, to avoid significant social and environmental problems.


Speaking last week at the opening ceremony of the first session of the FAO Sub-Committee on Aquaculture in Beijing, Nomura said: “It is our responsibility to take collective measures to improve our understanding of the real impact and cause in order to make the sector more and more environmentally sustainable and socially acceptable.”

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