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Countries by seafood consumption per capita; Rank Country Consumption in kg/person (2020) 1 Maldives: 87.30 2 Iceland: 84.30 3 Macau: 70.26 4 Kiribati: 69.22 5 Hong Kong: 65.79 6 Portugal: 59.36 7 Antigua and Barbuda: 57.12 8 South Korea: 54.66 9 Malaysia: 53.33 10 Seychelles: 52.89 11 Norway: 50.57 12 Federated States of Micronesia: 48.61 13 Japan
It covers 11.4 million square kilometres (4.38 million sq mi), which is the second largest zone in the world, exceeding the land area of the United States. [5] According to the FAO, in 2005, the United States harvested 4,888,621 tonnes of fish from wild fisheries, and another 471,958 tonnes from aquaculture. This made the United States the ...
These higher protein-level requirements are a consequence of the higher feed efficiency of aquatic animals (higher feed conversion ratio [FCR], that is, kg of feed per kg of animal produced). Fish such as salmon have an FCR around 1.1 kg of feed per kg of salmon [11] whereas chickens are in the 2.5 kg of feed per kg of chicken range. Fish do ...
Off the northeast coast of Queensland, most of the fish with fork lengths greater than 45–50 centimetres (18–20 in) are females. The hermaphroditic fish form once they reach 1- to 2-year-old, and then females begin to appear at 2-3-years old.
Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) are also known in the United States as king salmon or "blackmouth salmon", and as "spring salmon" in British Columbia, Canada. Chinook salmon is the largest of all Pacific salmon, frequently exceeding 6 ft (1.8 m) and 14 kg (30 lb). [ 45 ]
Oncorhynchus masou formosanus, commonly known as the Formosan landlocked salmon, [2] cherry salmon, [3] Taiwanese trout (Japanese: タイワンマス, romanized: taiwan masu), Tsugitaka trout (次高鱒, tsugitaka masu), Lishan trout (Chinese: 梨山鱒, after its native Lishan area in Heping District, Taichung) or Slamaw trout (from Slamaw, the indigenous Tayal name for Lishan), is an ...
On a dry-dry basis, 2–4 kg of wild-caught fish are needed to produce 1 kg of salmon. [23] The ratio may be reduced if non-fish sources are added. [20] Wild salmon require about 10 kg of forage fish to produce 1 kg of salmon, as part of the normal trophic level energy transfer. The difference between the two numbers is related to farmed salmon ...
Historically, fish from Thailand's inshore and offshore waters have been a significant provider of protein to the population. In 2001, the average yearly fish consumption was 32.4 kg per capita and provided on average 10–14 grams of protein per capita per day. It provides 40.5% of animal protein sources and 17.6% of total protein.