RE: Annual Per Capita Consumption Seafood

From: Alex Augusto Gonçalve (alaugo@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Sep 01 2008 - 05:29:05 PDT

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    Hi Angus,

    Thanks for this great material...

    Alex
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    Alex Augusto Gonçalves, Oc., Dr.
    http://lattes.cnpq.br/8707597761742642
    Post-Doc Researcher (al412383@dal.ca)
    Center of Water Resources Studies (Room 510D)
    Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University
    1360 Barrington St.
    Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 2X4
    Canada
     
    GI-Pescado Coordinator
    http://paginas.terra.com.br/educacao/seafoodgroup/
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     Technology and Aquaculture
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    -------Original Message-------
     
    From: Angus MacNiven
    Date: 8/31/2008 10:52:41 PM
    To: 'Alex Augusto Gonçalves'; 'Seafood group'; 'Peter Howgate'
    Subject: RE: Annual Per Capita Consumption Seafood
     
    Hi,
    Glitnir Bank has produced a nice report for the EU seafood market, currently
    the largest block of consumers. They have combined data from FAO and
    Eurostat with some of their own research and analysis. Download at
    http://www.glitnirbank.com/servlet/file/20080418_Seafood_EU
    pdf?ITEM_ENT_ID=6595&COLLSPEC_ENT_ID=156
    Regards,
    Angus
     



    From: owner-seafood@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-seafood@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf
    Of Alex Augusto Gon?alves
    Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 1:01 AM
    To: Seafood group; Peter Howgate
    Subject: Re: Annual Per Capita Consumption Seafood
     
    Hi Peter,
     
    Thanks for these information. In fact, I am looking data from 2005 to now
    but I will check data from FAO (I don't know, but the website today was
    inaccessible...).
     
    Have a safe day!

    Alex
     
     
    -------Original Message-------
     
    From: Peter Howgate
    Date: 8/31/2008 12:28:46 PM
    To: Alex Augusto Gonçalves; Seafood group
    Subject: Re: Annual Per Capita Consumption Seafood
     
    Alex
    Comprehensive data on consumption of fish and shellfish are available in
    Fish and Fishery Products. World apparent consumption statistics based on
    food balance sheets. FAO Fishery Circular No. 821'. The latest version is no
     7 and includes data up to 2003. The data are also available at FAOSTAT, but
    again only up to year 2003. The world per capita consumption, mean for the
    years 2001-2003, are shown in FAO's Yearbooks of Fishery Statistics, Summary
    Tables for 2005 available at ftp://ftp.fao
    org/fi/stat/summary/summ_05/default.htm. This gives a value of 16.3
    kg/person/year, live weight equivalents. 'Live weight equivalents' is the
    weight as caught, and not landed weight, which could be for gutted, headed,
    shucked and so on, so the data is not fish consumed. The gross overall world
    consumption can be arrived at by dividing the fisheries production, caught
    and harvested, used for human consumption by the world population. The
    production for human consumption is given in the FAO Summary tables and
    values for the world population from elsewhere. The FAO tables go up to 2005
     but in the 10 year span, 1995-2005, per capita consumption has increased
    more or less linearly and the trend estimates a consumption in 2007 of 17.0
    kg/person/year, increasing by 0.14 units/year.
    I would be chary of extrapolating these values too far. Capture fisheries
    seem to have reached a plateau and might even decrease in coming years.
    Production from aquaculture has been increasing approximately linearly over
    the last decade, but population has been increasing approximately
    exponentially so world per capita consumption can be expected to decrease at
    some point. I can hear Malthus claiming: "I told you so".
    If you want consumption data for individual countries for 2007 I would
    suggest you extract the relevant data for, say, a 10 year span from the
    FAOSTAT table and extrapolate. Unless there is a marked change in
    consumption patterns in a country over 4 years I think they will give a
    reasonably accurate prediction. It is interesting to examine changes in
    consumption of fish and shellfish by countries. In those with history high
    consumptions, e.g. Japan, Spain, there is a trend for consumption to
    decrease, whereas for may developing countries there is a trend for an
    increase.
    Peter Howgate
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Alex Augusto Gonçalves
    To: Seafood group
    Cc: FAOSTAT@fao.org
    Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 1:24 PM
    Subject: Annual Per Capita Consumption Seafood
     
    Dear colleagues,
     
    I am looking for current (2007-) statistics of annual per capita consumption
    of seafood & seafood products around the world.
     
    I tried this search in some databases but no results I found...
     
    Somebody could help me?
     
    Thanks in advance.
     
    Alex
      
    ..................................................
    Alex Augusto Gonçalves, Oc., Dr.
    http://lattes.cnpq.br/8707597761742642
    Post-Doc Researcher (al412383@dal.ca)
    Center of Water Resources Studies (Room 510D)
    Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University
    1360 Barrington St.
    Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 2X4
    Canada
     
    GI-Pescado Coordinator
    http://paginas.terra.com.br/educacao/seafoodgroup/
    Executive member of Pan-American Network of Fish Inspection, Quality Control
     Technology and Aquaculture
    http://paginas.terra.com.br/educacao/seafoodgroup/redpan/
      


     
      



     


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