Environment and aquaculture in developing countries

Table 6. Inland fishcrics and aquaculture production in ksia and thePacific in 1990.

(Source: FA0 1992a).

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Total inland Production Production

production from capture from culture

Countrylrchion (t) (t) (t) %

Mghanistan

Bangladesh

Bhutan

Brunei Da~ussalarn

Cambodia

China

Hong Kong

India

Indonesia

Iran

Korea, D.P.R.

Korea, Rep. of

Laos

Malaysia

Mongolia

Myanmar

Nepal

Pacific Islanrls

Pakistan

Philippines

Singapore

Sri Lanka

Taiwan

Thailand

Vietnam

Developing countrice 9,934,359

Australia 4,306 2.257 2,049 47.6

Japan 208,120 111,840 96,280 46.3

New Zealand 103 103 0 0.0

Developed countries 212,529 114,200 98,329 46.3

Asia-Pacilic total 10,146,888 3,866,687 6,280,201 61.9

Rest of World 4,298,608 3,123,098 1,176,410 27.3

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World total -- 14,445,396 6,989,785 7,455,611 61.6

Kong, Iran and Taiwan. A significant shift
from capture to culture fisheries and an
increasing dominance of cultured fish in
the inland fish catch are sure signs of
diminishing natural freshwater habitats:
the impoverishment of the original fish
fauna due to overfishing and other human
interventions.

Inland aquaculture is dominated by

finfish production all over the world.

Freshwater crustaceans, molluscs and

aquatic plants contributed less than 1% to

the total in the Asia-Pacific region and

their share in the rest of the world is

similarly very low (3%). Freshwater fish

culture, especially in the developing