Fisheries and Aquaculture Production

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: fish-production-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Aquatic animal production (tonnes, live weight)is built fromCapture fisheries (tonnes, live weight)Aquaculture (tonnes, live weight)

Every column in the newest file of Fisheries and Aquaculture Production: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	220	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	220	0
Aquatic animal production (tonnes, live weight)fish_productionHeadline	The headline figure: Fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic animals caught or farmed, tonnes (live weight).	Number · up to 3 decimals	03 share it70,500,841Chinamiddle 52,375	217	0
Capture fisheries (tonnes, live weight)capturePart of the headline	Fish and other aquatic animals caught in the wild, at sea and inland, in tonnes of live weight, credited to the fishing vessel's flag.	Number · up to 3 decimals	05 share it12,943,702Chinamiddle 42,453	215	0
Aquaculture (tonnes, live weight)aquaculturePart of the headline	Fish and other aquatic animals farmed in fresh, brackish and marine water, in tonnes of live weight; 0 where FAO records none.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.021 share it57,557,138.6Chinamiddle 2,773.4	184	0
Algae, capture and farmed (tonnes, wet weight; not in the total)algaeMeasure	Seaweed and other aquatic plants, caught and farmed, in tonnes of wet weight; not part of the total, and empty where FAO records none.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.03 share it24,710,026.7Chinamiddle 606.9	64	147

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 75 years.

Not in this dataset · 5 places this site covers

FAO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

Channel IslandsKosovoNorthern CyprusSomalilandVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

   fao.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Global Fisheries and Aquaculture Production 2024

   GlobalProduction_2026.1.0.zip

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   75 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as fish-production-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/fish-production

FAO's FishStat Global Production dataset, read from FAO's own download. FishStat records production species by species; the total here adds those records up in the way FAO's own yearbook does, leaving out whales, seals and crocodiles, which are counted by head, and pearls, corals and sponges.

• Charted

  Fisheries and Aquaculture Production by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Food & Agriculture
  • Environment & Sustainability

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