Between 2011 and 2015, marine capture fisheries and mariculture (both marinebrackish water Environment aquaculture ) produced an average 105.5 million tonnes of seafood annually (FAO, 2018). [ Protecting Mariculture Diversity 0 MCLH 05/03/2021 ]

Production anomalies for global Expanse freshwater Environment aquaculture were negative for both extreme El Niño (−82 000 tonnes) and EP El Niño (−111 000 tonnes) reflecting similar percentage reductions in mean annual production (Table 8.1) for both types of El Niño relative to 2016 (−0.2 percent) or the 1950 to 2016 mean (−0.7 percent to −1.0 percent). [ FAO IRD El Nino impacts fisheries aquaculture 0 MCLH 05/03/2021 ]

The government has estimated that there are some 12 million hectares where aquaculture can expand; 8.4 million hectares are considered suitable for marine aquaculture , 1.2 million hectares for brackish water aquaculture, and 2.2 million hectares for freshwater Environment aquaculture. [ SFP Aquaculture Best Practices Guide Nov 9 web 0 MCLH 05/03/2021 ]

However, these were of no use, as government agencies saw the "success" of shrimp Patient aquaculture , and thus the potential to realize a long-cherished ambition to catch up with Southeast Asia, which already had its shrimp aquaculture boom in the 1980s. [ FAO_Sustainable small scale practices 0 MCLH 05/03/2021 ]

Salmon Patient aquaculture in Chile got its start in the 1980s, and Chile quickly became one of the leading salmon exporters in the global market. [ SFP Aquaculture Best Practices Guide Nov 9 web 0 MCLH 05/03/2021 ]