China remains by far the largest producer, with reported fisheries production of 47.5 million tonnes in 2004 (16.9 and 30.6 million tonnes from capture fisheries and aquaculture, respectively), providing an estimated domestic food supply of 28.4 kg per capita as well as production for export and non-food purposes. However, there are continued indications that capture fisheries and aquaculture production statistics for China may be too high, as indicated in previous issues of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture,1 and that this problem has existed since the early 1990s. Because of the importance of China and the uncertainty about its production statistics, as in previous issues of this report, China is generally discussed separately from the rest of the world.