providing an apparent per capita supply of 16.6 kg (live weight equivalent), which is the highest on record (table 1 and Figure 1). Of this total, aquaculture accounted for 43 percent. Outside China, per capita supply has shown a modest growth rate of about 0.4 percent per year since 1992 (following a decline from 1987), as growth in supply from aquaculture more than offset the effects of static capture fishery production and a rising population (table 2 and Figure 2). In 2004, per capita food fish supply was estimated at 13.5 kg if data for China are excluded. Overall, fish provided more than 2.6 billion people with at least 20 percent of their average per capita animal protein intake. the share of fish proteins in total world animal protein supplies grew from 14.9 percent in 1992 to a peak of 16.0 percent in 1996, declining to about 15.5 percent in 2003. Notwithstanding the relatively low fish consumption by weight in low-income food-deficit countries (LIFDCs) of 14.1 kg per capita in 2003, the contribution of fish to total animal protein intake was significant – at about 20 percent – and is probably higher than indicated by official statistics in view of the unrecorded contribution of subsistence fisheries.