Tilapia Global Supply and Demand in 2014.

Kevin Fitzsimmons, Ph.D.University of Arizona, Professor of Environmental Science

World Aquaculture Society, Past-President

Aquaculture without Frontiers, Past-Chairman

New Orleans

February 2015

Tilapia: continuing to increase in popularity globally

• Tilapias are second only to the carps as a farmed food fish.

• In 2012 the global volume of farmed fish exceeded global volume of beef for the first time (FAO)

• Tilapia have unique characteristics that will facilitate its continued growth to someday surpass carp production.

Global production of some major farmed fishes

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World Tilapia Production of 4,850,000 mt in 2014

2008 Tilapia exports from China

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Sales volume = 224,359 mt

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Global production of tilapia

Top Ten Seafoods (U.S.)per capita (lbs)

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Shr imp 3.2 T una 2.9 T una 3.1 T una 3.4 T una 3.1 T una 2.9 T una 2.7 T una 2.8 T una 2.5 T una 2.7 Tuna 2.6 Tuna 2.4 Salmon 2.7

P ol lock 1.6 Salmon 2.0 Salmon 2.0 Salmon 2.2 Salmon 2.4 Salmon 2.0 Salmon 2.4 Salmon 1.8 Salmon 2.0 Salmon 2.0 Salmon 2.0 Salmon 2.0 Tuna 2.3

Salmon 1.5 P ol lock 1.2 P ol lock 1.1 P ol lock 1.7 P ol lock 1.5 P ol lock 1.6 P ol lock 1.7 P ol lock 1.34 P ol lock 1.45 T i lapia 1.45 Pollock 1.3 Tilapia 1.5 Tilapia 1.5

Catfi sh 1.1 Catfi sh 1.1 Catfi sh 1.1 Catfi sh 1.1 Catfi sh 1.0 T i lapia 1.0 T i lapia 1.14 T i lapia 1.19 T i lapia 1.21 P ol lock 1.2 Tilapia 1.3 Pollock 1.2 P ollock 1.1

Cod 0.8 Cod 0.6 Cod 0.7 Cod 0.6 T i lapia 0.8 Catfi sh 0.97 Catfi sh 0.90 Catfi sh 0.92 Catfi sh 0.85 Catfi sh 0.8 Pangasius 0.6Pangasius 0.7 P angasius 0.7

Clams 0.5 Clams 0.5 Cr abs 0.6 Cr abs 0.6 Cr abs 0.6 Cr abs 0.7 Cr abs 0.68 Cr abs 0.61 Cr abs 0.59 Cr abs 0.6 Catfish 0.6 Crabs 0.5 Cod 0.6

Cr abs 0.4 Cr abs 0.4 Clams 0.5 T i lapia 0.5 Cod 0.6 Cod 0.5 Cod 0.47 Cod 0.44 Cod 0.42 Cod 0.5 Crabs 0.5 Cod 0.5 Catfish 0.6

Flatfi sh 0.4 Flatfi sh 0.4 T i lapia 0.4 Clams 0.5 Clams 0.4 Clams 0.4 Clams 0.45 Flatfi sh 0.43 Clams 0.41 P angasius 0.4 Cod 0.5 Catfish 0.5 Crabs 0.6

Scal lops 0.3 T i lapia 0.4 Flatfi sh 0.3 Scal lops 0.3 Scal lops 0.3 Scal lops 0.3 Flatfi sh 0.32 Clams 0.42 P angasius 0.35 Clams 0.35 Clams 0.3 Clams 0.3 Clams 0.3

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US Tilapia consumption (imports and domestic)465,953 mt of live weight (equivalent – 2009)

579,443 mt of live weight (equivalent – 2010)

513,361 mt of live weight (equivalent – 2011)613,406 mt of live weight (equivalent – 2012)

660,762 mt of live weight (equivalent – 2013)633,759 mt of live weight equivalent – 2014)

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$842,866,006(2010), $838,349,634(2011), $986,127,852 (2012), $1,034,501,000 (2013)

$1,114,646,000 (2014)

• Imports to US in 2014 were $1,114,646,000 • US production of about 30,000,000 lbs at

farm• 2014 US tilapia farm-gate sales were about

$90,000,000• 2014 US Tilapia Sales estimate –• $1,114,646,000 + $90,000,000 =

$ 1,204,646,000

US Sales of tilapia

Selective breeding and genetic improvements

• Excellent breeding programs - G.I.F.T. - Malaysia- Acuaplan - Mexico- Genomar - Brasil and Norway- Chitralada – Thailand- TabTim – Thailand (CP Group)- GIFT Excell – Philippines- Molobicus - Philippines- GIFT Bangladesh

• Several in Israel • YY Supermale - Philippines and

Swansea, Egypt and Indonesia

Genetic improvements in tilapia

(From: Mair, G., 2002)

Tilapia Genome Project

• March 2011 - First assembly of the tilapia genome• Oreochromis niloticus – Nile Tilapia• http://www.broadinstitute.org/ftp/pub/assemblies/

fish/tilapia/Orenil1/• Matching many segments to those known from

other fish• Publically available and freely accessible• Next frontier of genetic program for tilapia

The YY male technology

(GMT®)

Regions of rapid production growth• Vietnam – conversion of catfish cages to tilapia in

Mekong, and culture in all regions• Indonesia – cage culture, polycultures, rice culture• Malaysia – government support and private sector

investment• Bangladesh – government support and private sector

investment• Brasil – lots of available water, labor, land, feed• Thailand – better reporting, shrimp polyculture• Mexico – continued intensification, some govt

support, large and small private investments• Sub-Saharan Africa - commercialization

Mexico 4,623 licensed tilapia

farms out of 9,230 total aquaculture licenses in all of Mexico

20,000 ton Dos Lagos farm in Chiapas

Second farm now started, also by Regal Springs

2013 sales of 1,343,000,000 pesos($103,000,000 US)

Nepal

Live tilapia sales Farmed in south near

Indian border, sold in Kathmandu and Pokhara

Pathways in the use of tilapia as biomanipulator (and disease control?) in

shrimp farms for Vibrios and EMS

Promotion of Chlorella

dominance

Bioturbation of sediment

Production of natural

antimicrobials

Feeding on organic waste

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SUPRESSION OF GROWTH OF V. harveyi

and V. parahaemolyticus ?

Stocking and harvest schedule

Improvements in packaging

Traditional product forms

Yangon BBQ tilapia

Mexican-American street foods

Courtesy:Randall Brummett

Byproducts - Tilapia Leather

Tilapia skin furniture from Brazil

Tilapia scales for flowers and skins for shoes

Pet treats

Tilapia pedicures and manicures

Global Tilapia Market TrendsPrices have been constant, only fresh fillets have increased

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tilapia fillets in Tucson, Arizona Safeway

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Global Aquaculture Tilapia Sales• For year 2000 =US $ 1,615,321,000

(FAO FishStat 2007)

• 2005 sales = $ 2,457,312,000(FAO FishStat 2007)

• 2010 sales = $ 5,680,410,000(FAO FishStat 2012)

• 2012 sales = $ 7,656,257,000(FAO FishStat 2014)

• 2014 sales > $ 10,000,000,000

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ISTA 11

Surabaya, Indonesia In conjunction with WAS Asia-Pacific

Chapter Regal Springs, Surya University, Matahari

Sakti Feeds, AquaFish Innovation Lab, WorldFish, andAquaculture without Frontiers

April 26-29, 2016

Conclusions• Global tilapia production was 4,507,002

metric tons in 2012 (FAO, 2014), should exceed 4,850,000 MT in 2014 and 5,000,000 in 2015. (6% growth)

• Constantly improving farming, processing and packaging for food safety, quality assurance, traceability, and environmental safeguards (with little, if any, increase in price).

• Other aquaculture species will follow the tilapia model.

Conclusions

• Tilapia has long been called the aquatic chicken.

• Instead…...

• The “terrestrial tilapia”

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