Environment and aquaculture in developing countries

I Year

Fig. 6. Gmwth of cultured seaweed prnductjon in Asia and the Pacific. Data aggregated up to

1983. (Sources: Csavas 1988; FA0 1992a).

Table 15. Cultured seaweedproduction inAsiaandthePacific in1990. (3ource: FA0 1992a).

Bmwn Red Other

seaweeds seaweeds seaweeds Total

Countryfregion (t) (t) (t) (t)

China 1,465,836 52,938 132,336 1,651,110

Indonesia 80,000 80,000

Korea, D.P.R. 117,500 2,970 10,000 130.470

Korea, Rep. of 277,417 97,637 36,828 411,882

Panfic Islands 550 550

Philippines 291,176 291,176

Taiwan 10,614 1 10,615

Vietnam 2,000 2,000

Developing muntries 1,860,753 457,885 259J65 2,577,803

Japan 172,974 387,245 6.000 566,219

Developed countries 172,974 387,245 6,000 566,219

Asia-Pacific total 2,033,727 845.1 30 265,165 3,144,022

Rest of World 5.388 38,021 260 43,669

World total 2,039,115 883,151 265,425 3,187,691

spp.). Laminnria is traditionally cultured whichis not for direct human consumption
in Japan and both Koreas, but it is in but for extraction of alginates and iodine.
Chma where kelp culture has developed Undoria and Porphyra spp. form the
into ahuge operation ofaround1.5 million second and third mo~tvolumi~l~u~ groups.
t (wet weight) annually about a third of Both commodities are produced