Outlook
Fish as food: Projections to 2020 under different scenarios
Report by Christopher Delgado, Mark Rosegrant, Nikolas Wada, Siet Meijer, and Mahfuzuddin Ahmed
"With capture fisheries stagnating and aquaculture booming, large questions loom about the future of the world's fish supply and the ability of the poor to afford fisheries products. Quantitative simulation of the relation of fisheries to other components of world food supply and prices has not been done at the global level to date. Many of the methodological difficulties inherent in the task were discussed in Delgado and Courbois (2000). The present paper reports results of the projections to 2020 for ten major economic categories of fisheries items, disaggregated into 15 geographic regions of the world."
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World Feed Panorama: Feed more profitable, but disease breeds uncertainty
Article published in Feed International January 2006 by Clayton Gill.
"Most of the world’s feed manufacturers had a better business year in 2005 than in 2004, mainly due to lower feedstuffs costs and economic resurgence in many countries. However, many in Asia—both commercial feed companies and food companies with integrated feed manufacturing—suffered lost tonnage due to the H5N1 strain of human-pathogenic avian influenza, now popularly known as ‘bird flu’."
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Feed market presentation
Slide presentation on the feed market, 2006: Currently animal feed rich in protein is often produced from fishmeal, but progressive overfishing of the oceans leads to rapidly increasing prices of fishmeal, and the price of e.g. aquaculture fish is consequently being driven up, thus drastically aggravating the nutritional problems faced by third-world populations. The presentation given in connection with the signing ceremony for supplying the factory from UniBio A/S in Denmark.
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