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Latin America
Assessments and Projections from Outlook for Fish to 2020: Meeting Global Demand
- By 2020, production of all fish for food in Latin America will increase 38 percent over 1997 production levels, from 6.4 to 8.8 million metric tons.
- In 2020, a projected 84 percent of fish produced for food in Latin America will come from wild fisheries, down from 90 percent in 1997. By 2020, the region will more than double its output from aquaculture, increasing fish production from 656,000 metric tons to 1.5 million metric tons.
- Of all fish produced for food in Latin America in 2020, 39 percent will be high-value finfish caught in wild fisheries.
- In 2020, per capita consumption of food fish in Latin America is projected to be 8.6 kilograms per year. This is a 10 percent increase over 1997 consumption levels.
- Latin America will import on a net basis a projected 908,000 metric tons of low-value food fish in 2020, the most of any region. Latin America will consume 3.8 million metric tons of low-value food fish in 2020, a 44 percent increase over 1997 consumption levels.
- In 2020, Latin America is projected to be the world's largest net exporter of fish for food, at 3 million metric tons. Net exports of high-value finfish from the region will be 2.6 million metric tons.
Other facts about Latin America:
- In Latin America, agriculture employs 20.8 percent of the male labor force and 11.2 percent of the female labor force. (World Bank, World Development Indicators, 2003)
- Almost 64 percent of the rural population in Latin America and the Caribbean live below the poverty line and, over the last two decades, the number of poor people in rural areas has increased in both absolute and relative terms. (International Fund for Agricultural Development of the United Nations, Strategy for Rural Poverty Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2002)
- Agriculture and rural economic activities are major sources of employment in Latin America and the Caribbean, comprising more than 30 percent. (International Fund for Agricultural Development of the United Nations, Strategy for Rural Poverty Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2002)
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