Thanks for the comment! I’ve corrected the wording there. Am I correct in my understanding that even though the pond loach is the most commonly farmed species, the total number of farmed carp (across all the different carp species) is quite a bit higher?
Yes the three top carp* species alone make up 19 billion individuals vs 11 billion pond loach
*I’m treating any large member of the Cyprinidae family as a “carp” ( common names are difficult at the best of the times and even worse for fish) for these purposes
*minor nitpick While Carp, Catfish, Tilapia, Salmonids etc are very common “ types” of fish farmed, each of those categories lumps together numerous species, while the most common farmed fish species is the pond loach https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12pA0UxIbRDcfY5g25XZ7na4duhj6411l-1-_3tRH48k/edit only weighs 4 to 5 grams https://www.fisheriesjournal.com/archives/2019/vol7issue4/PartC/7-3-62-705.pdf
Thanks for the comment! I’ve corrected the wording there. Am I correct in my understanding that even though the pond loach is the most commonly farmed species, the total number of farmed carp (across all the different carp species) is quite a bit higher?
Yes the three top carp* species alone make up 19 billion individuals vs 11 billion pond loach
*I’m treating any large member of the Cyprinidae family as a “carp” ( common names are difficult at the best of the times and even worse for fish) for these purposes