U.S. Aquaculture Production Highlights

 2017 U.S. Aquaculture Production, Highlights

While the worldwide amount of wild-caught seafood has stayed the about same in recent years, aquaculture continues to increase. Sales of domestic marine aquaculture increased on average 13% per year from 2007 to 2011, led by increases in oyster and salmon production. Excluding seaweed, the US ranked 16^th in aquaculture production, yet is the leading global importer of fish and fishery products, with nearly 90 percent of the seafood by value originating abroad, over half of it from aquaculture. Indeed, the U.S. seafood trade deficit grew to $14 billion in 2016.

According to NOAA Fisheries, in the United States marine aquaculture production has increased an average of 3.3 percent per year from 2009-2014. Though a relatively minor aquaculture producer, the United States is a major player in global aquaculture as the nation supplies a variety of advanced technology, feed, equipment, and investment capital to other producers around the world.

REF: NOAA Fisheries “U.S. Aquaculture” (2019-01-30)

( https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/aquaculture/us-aquaculture/ )