Questions and Answers on Strategic Guidelines for sustainable EU aquaculture

Aquaculture can bring safe, healthy and sustainable seafood on our tables, and help us fight overfishing. The global consumption of seafood is constantly increasing, but there is a limit to what our capture fisheries can sustainably produce. Aquaculture can help filling this growing gap in a sustainable way. It also has a positive impact in terms of growth and job creation in coastal and inland areas: based on current labour productivity, each percentage point of current EU consumption produced internally through aquaculture could help create between 3,000 and 4,000 full-time jobs.