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Aquaculture in China and its Role in Global Markets and Resources

S6001881
open water aquaculture
Workers at an open-water fish farm in China
Photo credit: Max Troell

Researchers

Rosamond L. Naylor
Principal Investigator
Ling Cao
Investigator

Seafood plays a critical role in global food security and protein intake. The global supply of seafood increasingly comes from aquaculture - the farming of fish, shellfish, and aquatic plants. China is the dominant leader in this field, supplying about two-thirds of global aquaculture production. China also consumes an estimated one-third of global aquaculture output, a figure that is expected to increase as the country proceeds along its developmental trajectory.

This project builds on our recent field surveys in China (supported previously by the Packard Foundation), with two aims:

1) to finalize our analysis and publish peer-reviewed papers on China’s role in global aquaculture, seafood trade, and feed use; and

2) to convene researchers from around the world to advance the science around Chinese aquaculture from a food security perspective.

The anticipated output will be a set of unique and high profile papers on China’s rising role in this important area of global food production, trade, and food security. They would follow a prior set of papers by Naylor and colleagues on global aquaculture trends and impacts that have been published, for example, in Nature, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Publications

Alice Chiu
;
Luping Li
;
Shujing Guo
;
Junfei Bai
;
Chris Fedor
;
Rosamond L. Naylor
Ling Cao
;
Rosamond L. Naylor
;
Patrik Henriksson
;
Duncan Leadbitter
;
Marc Metian
;
Max Troell
;
Wenbo Zhang