History of Aquaculture in the
United States…and Florida
Aquaculture began in China
Silver carp
Bighead carp
Common carp
Grass carp
World Seafood Production in 2000:
•Finfish and shellfish = 130.4 million metric
tons ( mmt )
•Finfish, shellfish and plants = 141.8 mmt
World aquaculture production in 2000:
•45.7 mmt total aquaculture including:
•35.6 mmt of fish and shellfish and 8.5 mmt of cultured seaweed.
26 % of fish and shell fish harvested due to aquaculture
Table 1. World Fish, Shellfish and Seaweed Culture, by country in 1999 (MT x 1000)
1.
China
2.
India
3.
Japan
4.
Philippines
5.
S. Korea
30,044
2,035
1,315
949
777
6.
7.
Indonesia Bangladesh
690
620
8.
Vietnam
9.
N. Korea
10.
United States
613
482
479
Aquaculture harvest by region in the world, 1996
U. S. aquaculture began in the late 1800s and early
1900s in federal fish hatcheries.
Pacific salmon
Rainbow trout
bluegill
Largemouth bass
Channel Catfish
Channel Catfish
Channel Catfish
scale
Channel Catfish
600,000,000 lbs
processed in 2001
Mississippi
accounts
for 65 % of
farmed
catfish
Rainbow trout
Rainbow trout
Rainbow trout
Rainbow trout
World Production of Rainbow Trout in 1999: 502,300,000 lbs
U.S. annual production: 56,900,000 lbs in 2001
9 % of total finfish production in U. S.
State
Production, lb
Price/lb
1.
Idaho
39,500,000
0.87
2.
N. Carolina
4,550,000
1.30
3.
Washington
2,590,000
1.00
4.
California
2,500,000
2.05
5.
Pennsylvania
1,640,000
2.50
Red Swamp Crawfish
Red Swamp Crawfish
Crawfish burrow
Female carrying eggs
Size variety in ponds
Red Swamp Crawfish
Red Swamp Crawfish
1998
36,100,000 lbs
90% of crawfish in the U. S.
Louisiana
Tilapia
Red Tilapia
Nile Tilapia
Tilapia
Tilapia
Mono-sex male tilapia populations can
be produced by:
1. Visual selection
2. Hybridization
3. Sex-reversal
4. Genetic manipulation
Male Populations
Tilapia
U. S. tilapia
Production 2000:
18,191,000 lbs
Over 1,980,000,000 lbs
of farmed tilapia are
harvest world-wide
yearly.
Atlantic Salmon
Atlantic Salmon
Atlantic Salmon
Atlantic Salmon
World Harvest of
Farmed Salmon in 1999
is: 1,760,000,000 lbs
Maine is the leading U. S.
producer at 79,000,000 lbs
Hybrid striped bass
Striped bass
White bass
Hybrid striped bass
Hybrid striped bass
Hybrid striped bass
Hybrid striped bass
U. S. harvest - 2000
Weight – 11,237,000 lbs
Oysters
Oysters
Wild oyster
seed
collected
on
substrate
Hatchery produced oyster seed
Oysters
Harvest from beds on ocean floor
Cultured oyster harvest
canned
Oysters
Meat is 10 %
of the whole
oyster
weight
Wild and farmed harvest of oyster meat in the U. S.
in 1999 was 279,914,000 lbs.
Bait Minnows
Golden Shiner
Fathead minnow
Nearly 1,600 bait minnow farms are in operation in the
United States.
Arkansas
The largest bait farm in the U.S. has about 2,500 acres
of water and produces about 3 million pounds per year.
Arkansas is the leading baitfish-producing state,
accounting for about half of the nation's supply.
15,480,000 lb with
a value of 57
million dollars
produced in 1999
Minnesota, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and
Missouri each have over 1,000 acres devoted to bait
fish farming.
Ornamental fishes
Florida
800 varieties of
freshwater fishes
worth $43.2 million
in 1999
Tampa
The End