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TIL in 2022, aquaculture surpassed capture fisheries as the main producer of aquatic animals for the first time. Global aquaculture production reached an unprecedented 130.9 million tonnes, of which 94.4 million tonnes are aquatic animals, 51 percent of the total aquatic animal production

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