under authority of the fisheries act the aar provides greater environmental assurances and regulatory stability for businesses world s total values of production for catch and aquaculture were sourced from the fao yearbook fishery and aquaculture statistics both numbers have been corrected adding the value of seaweed production aquaculture lias also been adjusted to account for the value of chinese production reported to the oecd fish stocks data were sourced from canadas sustainability survey for fisheries