Abstract

The world harvest of fishery products from our oceans and other natural waters is approximately 90 million MT per year. This level of production has remained essentially the same for more than a decade. Of this total, about 30% is reduced to fish meal and oil. Some predict that the ultimate production from our natural waters will level off at approximately 100 million MT per year. World aquaculture started out at a modest production of 1 million MT per year by 1966. It has expanded to a level of about 15 million MT currently. The world population is increasing by approximately 86 million persons per year and this rate is expected to reach 96 million by the year 2000. World per capita consumption of fisheries products is about 13 kg and is expected to increase. Aquaculture has and will continue to play a major role in providing quality fishery products for the steadily increasing demand. Many of the culture species being farmed around the world are high-value species, particularly crustaceans. This paper reviews the status and potential of crustacean aquaculture throughout the world; it particularly focuses on the potential and constraints for crayfish aquaculture.

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