We\u2019ve been catching about 90 million tons of fish, the last great wild food, since the mid-90s and that\u2019s simply \u201cnot enough to keep up with global seafood consumption, which has risen from 22 lb. per person per year in the 1960s to nearly 38 lb. today.\u201d Worse yet, the U.N. reports that already \u201c32% of global fish stocks are overexploited\u201d so catches may decrease. Aquaculture and fish farms \u201cmight represent the last, best chance for fish to have a future.\u201d Aquaculture is growing \u201cfaster than any other form of food production,\u201d and now provides over 50 million tons of fish\u00a0annually. Time believes, \u201cif we’re all going to survive and thrive in a crowded world, we’ll need to cultivate the seas just as we do the land.\u201d<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve been catching about 90 million tons of fish, the last great wild food, since the mid-90s and that\u2019s simply \u201cnot enough to keep up with global seafood consumption, which has risen from 22 lb. per person per year in the 1960s to nearly 38 lb. today.\u201d Worse yet, the U.N. reports that already \u201c32% of global fish stocks are overexploited\u201d so catches may decrease. Aquaculture and fish farms \u201cmight represent the last, best chance for fish to have a future.\u201d Aquaculture is growing \u201cfaster than any other form of food production,\u201d and now provides over 50 million tons annually. Time believes, \u201cif we’re all going to survive and thrive in a crowded world, we’ll need to cultivate the seas just as we do the land.\u201d<\/p>\n
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We\u2019ve been catching about 90 million tons of fish, the last great wild food, since the mid-90s and that\u2019s simply \u201cnot enough to keep up with global seafood consumption, which has risen from 22 lb. per person per year in the 1960s to nearly 38 lb. today.\u201d Worse yet, the U.N. reports that already \u201c32% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[816,790,617,817,367,71],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-aquaculture","tag-diet","tag-fish","tag-global-population","tag-sustainability","tag-u-n"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}