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Share of global food loss and waste by region. Share of the population defined as severely food insecure vs. undernourished. Total reserves in months of imports. Vegetable oil production. Vegetable supply per person vs. GDP per capita. Wheat exports from Ukraine and Russia in perspective. Amount of food wasted per capita, measured in kilograms.
Sep 6, 2023 · For over 100 years, hatcheries have been producing fish in an effort to mitigate human impacts on the natural environment. Whether to increase stocks to fuel the demands of commercial and recreational fisheries, counteract the effects of habitat loss, or rescue species on the brink of extinction, hatcheries have been employed all over the planet as a tool to undo damage to fish populations ...
Mar 14, 2024 · March 2025. Date range. 1961–2021. Unit. kilograms per year per capita. Chart 1 of 2. Sources and processing. This data is based on the following sources. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – Food Balances: Food Balances (-2013, old methodology and population)
- The Hatchery Crutch: How We Got Here
- A Brief History
- Salmon Enhancement
- Restoring Salmon Population
Across much of the Pacific Northwest of North America, salmon populations are struggling. An array of modern plagues—development, pollution, logging, overfishing—has decimated habitats, leaving fish gasping for oxygen, searching in vain for egg-friendly gravel, and swimming into concrete barriers as they return to their home rivers and streams. And...
Almost a century ago, a Canadian scientist revealed that hatcheries were, at best, failed experiments and, at worst, monuments to delusional thinking. In the early 1920s, fisheries biologist Russell Earl Foerster arrived at Cultus Lake, which drains into the lower Fraser River in British Columbia, to run a salmon hatchery built by the province ten ...
In 1974, Peter Larkin, the first provincial fisheries biologist in British Columbia, wrote an influential essay, “Play It Again, Sam—An Essay on Salmon Enhancement,” that’s equal parts enthusiastic and skeptical. Larkin spells out the foibles humans might bring to hatcheries and other means of boosting fish populations: the lack of continuity in re...
Salmon Nation finds itself in a predicament with no clear way forward. Here we are today, with an upended environment, too many fish, and not enough habitat. But we have the grim duty to look around, take our bearings, and say, “Well, where do we go from here?” As Larkin wrote, clear goals are important. Restoring salmon populations requires a thou...
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Sep 29, 2022 · One study showed that one hatchery was releasing spring Chinook Salmon with returns so low that it was costing the hatchery over $68,000 dollars per harvested fish! While this example is extreme and most harvested fish cost far less, it is an example of the perceived waste of critical funding that has gone into many fish hatchery programs.
In per capita terms, food fish consumption rose from 9.0 kg (live weight equivalent) in 1961 to 20.3 kg in 2017 . Preliminary estimates for per capita fish consumption in 2018 currently stand at 20.5 kg (Figure 2) .
The Food Waste Index Report 2024 builds upon its predecessor in three key ways: Firstly, it incorporates vastly expanded data points from around the world, providing a significantly more robust global and national estimates, detailed in Chapter 2 of the main report. Secondly, it expands on the SDG 12.3 food waste measurement methodology ...
