China has produced the most aquatic products in the world for 20 consecutive years, accounting for 70 percent of the world's total output of aquatic products.
In 1990, China became the first country in the world to have a higher cultivated aquatic product output than caught aquatic product output.
Water-saving, efficient, ecological and healthy cultivation modes have become China's mainstream aquaculture.
Data shows that in 2008, China's per capita amount of aquatic products stood at 36 kg, 1.6 times higher than the world average.
In 2008, China's fishery output value accounted for about 10 percent of its total farming output value, there were 14.54 million personnel engaged in fishery, and the per capita income of fishermen stood at 7,575 yuan, over 2,000 yuan higher than that of farmers.
At present, China owns nearly 1,500 deep-sea fishing boats, which operate in the international waters of the three oceans and waters administrated by 32 countries. China has become one of the world's main deep-sea fishery countries.
