Source record
Estimating the number of fish caught in global fishing each year
Alison Mood and Phil Brooke, Fishcount (2020).
Key findings
- Estimated wild-caught fish: 1.1–2.2 trillion annually, average 2000–2019.
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- Source type
- Report
- Study type
- Review
- Topics
- Scale
- Geography
- See study or jurisdiction in title
- Funding & conflicts
- Not recorded.
- Source quality
- Moderate evidenceImported from the dated research notes; original-source editorial verification remains pending.
Limitations
- Individual counts are modelled from catch tonnage, not observed censuses.
Claims this source supports
AnimalsStrong evidence
Around 85 billion land animals are slaughtered for food each year worldwide, the large majority of them chickens.
About ten land animals per person per year, most of them chickens. Fish are not counted individually, but likely add far more.