Recirculating Aquaculture Systems in China-Current Application and Prospects

Abstract

Volume 6 • Issue 3 • 1000134 Fish Aquac J ISSN: 2150-3508 FAJ, an open access journal For the past 20 years, aquaculture has seen a worldwide expansion and is the fastest growing food-producing sector in the world, with an average annual growth rate of 6-8%. World aquaculture has grown tremendously during the last sixty years from a production of less than a million tonne in the early 1950s to 90.43 million tonnes by 2012. Of this production, 66.63 million tonnes, or 73.68%, was fish. Aquaculture is now fully comparable to marine capture fisheries when measured by volume of output on global scale. The contribution from aquaculture to the world total fish production of capture and aquaculture in 2012 reached 42.2%, up from 25.7% in 2000.