2026-10-30 · percent of fish for human consumption
Half of fish we eat is farmed
Aquaculture passed wild catch — salmon and shrimp lead.
The majority of fish people eat is now raised, not caught. In 2026, aquaculture supplies 56% of fish for human consumption, overtaking wild capture at 44% — with salmon and shrimp leading the farmed side. The shift is redrawing what sustainable seafood means.
1 cell = 0.1 percent of fish for human consumption (0.1% of fish supply) · 1,000 cells
Context
FAO's fisheries accounting splits fish for human consumption into two sources: aquaculture and wild capture. The 2026 figures put farming at 56% and capture at 44%, with salmon and shrimp leading the farmed side.
The aquaculture share comes from FAO's State of World Fisheries reporting. FAO's other flagship, The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026 — produced with IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO — estimates that 645 million people faced hunger in 2025 and that healthy diets remain unaffordable for about 2.7 billion people, raising the stakes for affordable protein sources like fish.
With farms now the larger source of the fish on our plates, sustainability questions extend beyond catch quotas to how farmed fish are fed, sited and kept healthy.
FAO State of World Fisheries aquaculture share.
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