FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in the latest report “The state of world fisheries and aquaculture 2020” certified that the consumption of fish in the world has reached a record of 20.5 kg per capita per year, and is destined to rise again. In fact, fish consumption increased by 122% from 1990 to 2018. In the period from 1961 to 2017, total fish consumption grew at an average annual rate of 3.1%. In per capita terms, this means that we have gone from a consumption of 9 kg per person in 1961 to 20.3 kg in 2017.
