Antonio Sicurezza, still-life with anchovies (1972)
Fish and fish products are consumed as food all over the world. With other seafoods, they provides the world's prime source of high-quality protein; 14–16 percent of the animal protein consumed worldwide. Over one billion people rely on fish as their primary source of animal protein.[1][2]
Fish and other aquatic organisms are also processed into various food and non-food products.
Live, fresh or chilled is often the most preferred and highly priced form of fish and represents the largest share of fish for direct human
consumption, 45 percent in 2016, followed by frozen (31 percent), prepared and preserved (12 percent) and cured (dried, salted, in brine, fermented smoked) (12 percent). Freezing represents the main method of processing fish for human consumption; it accounted for 56 percent of total processed fish for human consumption and 27 percent of total fish production in 2016.[3]
Major improvements in processing as well as in refrigeration, ice-making and transportation have allowed increasing commercialization and distribution of fish in a greater variety of product forms in the past few decades. However, developing countries still mainly use fish in live or fresh form (53 percent of the fish destined for human consumption in 2016), soon after landing or harvesting from aquaculture. Loss or wastage between landing and consumption decreased, but still accounts for an estimated 27 percent of landed fish.[3]
^World Health Organization.
^Tidwell, James H. and Allan, Geoff L.
^ abIn brief, The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture, 2018(PDF). FAO. 2018.
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