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Wild capture was 90.4 million tons in 2011, up two per cent from 2010. Aquaculture, in contrast, has been expanding steadily for the last 25 years and saw a rise of 6.2 per cent in 2011, write report authors Danielle Nierenberg and Katie Spoden, Worldwatch Institute.
"Growth in fish farming can be a double-edged sword," said Ms Nierenberg, co-author of the report and Director of Worldwatch's Nourishing the Planet project. "Despite its potential to affordably feed an ever-growing global population, it can also contribute to problems of habitat destruction, waste disposal, invasions of exotic species and pathogens, and depletion of wild fish stock."
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