Global fish supply is undergoing a fundamental transition as
capture fisheries is succeeded by aquaculture. This transition is far
from uniform however. Even among major aquaculture producing
nations, such as those surveyed in Section 2 of this paper, capture
fisheries are crucial to food and nutrition security. For numerous
countries outside this ‘elite’ group ‘wild capture fisheries remain
the dominant supplier’ (Hall etal.,2013, p1).