World Aquaculture 2020: A Brief Overview

Continuing the FAO’s traditional aquaculture regional and global review process, six regional reviews on aquaculture were compiled in 2020 and were published in 2021. This document provides a synthesis of those six regional aquaculture reviews: Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Near East and North Africa, North America and sub-Saharan Africa. It explores how the aquaculture sector has grown and performed over the past five years and what lessons could be learned from the past to ensure sustainable growth and expansion of the sector in the coming years. FAO documents and published literature were also reviewed and incorporated into the overview.