Total global fish production, including wild capture and aquaculture, rose to nearly 159 million tons in 2008, the most recent year with data. This is a 1.27 percent increase from 2007 production levels. Aquaculture contributes nearly half of the fish produced worldwide and is expected to catch up to wild capture by 2012. Overall, 77 percent of fish production is for human consumption; the remainder is used for non-food production, mostly in the fishmeal and fish oil industries and for livestock feed. Global per capita fish consumption has been increasing steadily from an average of 9.9 kilograms in the 1960s to an average of 14.4 kilograms in the 1990s and 17.1 kilograms in 2009.

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