This is an interactive graphic. Click on the name to go to the presentation. He is also a greatly respected international figure in the field of Aquaculture research. The current crisis in the global fisheries is public knowledge.
Aquaculture can both provide alternatives and help meet current demands for marine products.
These will continue to grow in the future. It is currently estimated that the volume of commercial fisheries will at best remain constant at 80-90 millions tons per year, in the future, while global demands for fishery products will continue to increase. The growing difference between supply and demand will have to be met by aquaculture production. In order to do this, over the next 25 years, aquaculture will have to increase production levels by a factor of three or four. Aquaculture techniques must therefore become more efficient, more intensive.