Aquaculture Product Safety and Consumer Health An Overview of Aquaculture Public Health Issues

With wild catch of seafood threatened in the face of increasing demand worldwide there has been a marked increase in the production of seafood by aquaculture. A wide variety of species of finfish and shellfish are now grown. With this increase comes more concern for the quality and safety of these fishery products. China is the world’s biggest producer of aquacultured species. Worldwide aquaculture products provide more than 36 % of the world’s total fishery supplies (FAO 2004). Public Health Issues Aquaculture public health issues are highly focused, well known, and understood. Public health issues can be grouped as either environmentally induce