State of World Fisheries & Aquaculture report predicts 15% drop in salmon demand due to Covid

The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture report is produced every two years by the Food and Agriculture arm of the United Nations., It is the only report that tracks global fisheries and food trends– and it predicts that the Covid pandemic will have long-term impacts on the seafood industry, including reduced demand and prices., Seafood is one of the most traded food commodities in the world and global fish consumption has increased by 3.1 percent on average from 1961 to 2017, higher than all other animal proteins. Estimates peg global per capita fish consumption at over 45 pounds in 2018., World fisheries in 2018 produced a record 212 billion tons, 5.4 percent more on average from the previous three years., The increase was due mainly to anchovy catches of 15.4 billion pounds from Peru and Chile. Alaska pollock ranked second with nearly 7.5 billion pounds, followed by skipjack tuna., World aquaculture production reached another all-time record of nearly 252 billion pounds ...