International Journal of Marine Science 2015, Vol.5, No.17, 1-4
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Analysis on Global Eel Aquaculture Conditions
Sun Zhaoqun, Wan Rong, Zhu Yugui , Talib Kalhoro Muhammad, Moshin Muhammad
College of Fisheries, Ocean University of China Qingdao, 266100, China
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International Journal of Marine Science, 2015, Vol.5, No.17 doi: 10.5376/ijms.2015.05.0017
Received: 09 Jan., 2015
Accepted: 28 Feb., 2015
Published: 24 Mar., 2015
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Abstract
This paper analyzes some variation in the global eel industry and the main producing countries (regions) of eel production
trends based on the 1950-2012 global eel production data. The results show that in 1950-2012, the overall global eel production rose
rapidly. The world's major producing countries (regions) were variable during different periods, and the industry concentration of the
global eel industry shows a very high feature. China ranks first in the global eel production since 1989 and plays a very important
role in the global eel industry. About 80% of the global eel production is in China. The Changes of China's eel production has a
significant effect to the global eel production. In recent years, due to the long-term high-density overfishing and environmental
factors, the global eel fry recourses are becoming less and less, but it also suffered a serious "eel fry supply bottleneck". Currently,
the best way to promote the development of eel aquaculture industry is improving its technical efficiency.
Keywords
Eels; Production; Aquaculture; China
Introduction
Eels are one of the purest water creatures in the world,
there is a high nutritional and medicinal value in them
such as nourishing, enhancing fitness and other effects,
which are regarded as treasures in both ancient and
modern at home and abroad (Chen Sixing,1990).
Especially in Japan, people are particularly fond of
eels. Japanese eel festival would be held annually in
late July, everyone must eat eel to celebrate that day.
However, as the growing of people's demand for eel
and the production of fishing eel begin to can't meet
people's needs gradually. In addition, eel's resources
become less and less because of overfishing. To solve
the contradiction between eel's resources recession
and huge market demand, eel aquaculture industry
turns up and become more and more popular in the
world, and the share of eel aquaculture production in
the global eel production is becoming larger and larger.
So far, there are no such researches about eel
production trends change at home and abroad.
Therefore, this paper tries to 1950
-
2012 eel
production data analysis, systems analysis eel
movements in global production, aquaculture
production and catches, and to explore the main
reason behind it, on this basis, the proposed policy
recommendations to period government departments
or related businesses to provide a reference.
It should be noted that the eels in this paper refers to
the eel "River eels". According to the International
Standard Statistical Classification of Aquatic Animals
and Plants (ISSCAAP), "River eels" was composed of
the Japanese eel (
Anguilla japonica
), the European eel
(
Anguilla anguilla
), the American eel (
Anguilla
rostrata
), Short-finned eel (
Anguilla australis
), Indian
short fin eel (
Anguilla bicolor Pacifica
) and other eel,
etc., which are part of Actinopterygii, Anguilliformes,
Anguillidae, Anguilla. At present, Japanese eel and
European eel's production account for the most of eel's
global production, and followed by the American eel
and Short-finned eel's production, other eel's
production which are classified as other categories'
production due to the less production. What's more, in
order to facilitate the writing this paper, China which
appears below refers to mainland China, Taiwan
which appears below refers to Taiwan Area.
1 Material and Methods
The data of the eel production were from the FishstatJ
database of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),
and unless otherwise stated, the data time range is
from 1950 to 2012 years (FAO, 2013). In order to
explain the causes of the change in global eel industry,
a lot of literature review related to eels was used.
Since official statistics for Chinese eel production are
