Consumption of fish worldwide

[raildogg]

Anyone have some answers?

I'm assuming Japan and England are near the top, who else?

 

[vi edit]

Per capital? Probably Iceland. By volume? No clue.

 

[junkerman123]

By volume? Probably the US....just like everything else.

 

[Albatross]

japan ,china.....

 

[SpanishFry]

china has to be up there

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: junkerman123
By volume? Probably the US....just like everything else.

No way. We have far to much beef, pork, and poultry available for cheap vs other countries.

Your average American probably eats fish once or twice a week...if that(not counting Lent). Some countries probably consume seafood once or twice a day.

Granted we do have a large population, but we also have far more choices available that we choose to eat over seafood.

 

[raildogg]

Hmm, I tried searching but it didn't really show up. Yes, by total volume consumption. Per capita would help also. I am thinking that Europeans may eat more fish than other parts. Could be wrong though.

 

[iwearnosox]

Lesbionia.

 

[loup garou]

Per capita is definitely Japan. By volume, China and the US, most likely.

EDIT: I'm talking seafood as a whole here, it's pretty difficult to break it down just into "fish."

 

[PricklyPete]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Lesbionia.

LOL. Good stuff.

 

[loup garou]

Ok, this is over 10 years old, but the best I could find. Scroll down a bit to the table of Seafood production & consumption...:

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:XV...s+japan+china&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

Should've thought of S Korea...duh!

Note that these only seem to be numbers for Asia-Pacific Economic Coop countries of the time. But they're the only numbers I could really find!

 

[Albatross]

ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/007/y5600e/y5600e01.pdf

 

[BW86]

China

 

[raildogg]

Awesome, thank you Anandtech uber doods.

 

[Minjin]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Per capital? Probably Iceland. By volume? No clue.

Just in case its not a typo...FYI, the word is capita, not capital. "Per capita" is a latin phrase that means "for each head" so its used in statistics where we talk about something divided by number of people.

Mark

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: Minjin

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Per capital? Probably Iceland. By volume? No clue.

Just in case its not a typo...FYI, the word is capita, not capital. "Per capita" is a latin phrase that means "for each head" so its used in statistics where we talk about something divided by number of people.

Mark

Thank you captain grammar.

It was a typo.