Some numbers I dug up back when this article was new but I didn’t make an account
Capture of Eels outside Europe: the author estimates that between 28-350 million young eels are captured in Europe for export to be raised in Japan for meat. Eels are also caught in Maine, and to a lesser degree in south Carolina, to send to japan( in fact before I read the article knew of the Maine trade but not the European trade), http://www.asmfc.org/files/Meetings/78AnnualMeeting/AmericanEelBoardSupplemental.pdf
ndangered-eels.html says 13.6 tons worth of eels are caught in japan, and 40% of the capture in Japan is undocumented and possibly illegal, if we extrapolate this 40% figure to the US capture we get 15,323. And 1⁄3 pounds, Eels are also brought from taiwan and china, with 80% of young eels coming from China, according to this article:https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Food-Beverage/China-clamps-down-on-baby-eel-trade-in-blow-to-unagi-restaurants. 15 tons of young eels were stocked in the spring of 2019, vs 19.7 tons in the 2015-2016 season, suggesting the trade is declining. using the estimates the author gave,it seems 24,326,915 eels were caught in the USA(assuming Japanese statistics on illegal trade)( for scale comparison, that’s about a little less then the number of buffaloes slaughtered annually) , 47,600,000 eels caught in Japan,(for scale, around the lower estimate for how many ducks and geese killed for foe gra annually) with 52,500,000 caught eels stocked in japan in spring in 2019( about how many birds not otherwise specified by the FAO are slaughtered annually), differences in number of eels caught versus stocked, are likely due to eels dying in transit, or a conversion error somewhere on my part, or inaccurate reporting.
USA Canned Hunting/deer farming/ new world quails: The author makes note of the breeding of chukar partridge and pheasant in the USA as game,( though strangely leaves out the 69,110 grey partridge from this paper he cites https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2017/Full_Report/Volume_1,_Chapter_1_US/usv1.pdf) and the breeding of large animals in south Africa for hunting, but not the breeding of large animals in the US for hunting(,witch is so large it has spawned wild introduced populations of nilgai , aoudad and blackbuck in the American southwest), which occurs mainly in Texas. In This article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/us/exotic-hunting-texas-ranch.html a Texas State University Professor of biology says 1.3 million animals are being raised for exotic hunting in the US.( about the same number as crocodilians being farmed), It also says there are more blackbuck on ranches then in there native range of India, but this is refuted by the IUCN https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/1681/50181949#population.
However many animals raised on these ranches are deer, I don’t know. the author says 212,449 farmed deer in the US ( around the tentative low estimate for number of working animals in the world), sighting this document
American Bison: Now here is when things get confusing, and it is time for a taxonomy/etymology lesson.If we ignore the saola( a “living fossil” that diverged from the others early on, and resembles the very earliest cattle), Cattle can be divided into a ‘buffalo” branch and a ’not buffalo”branch. The buffalo branch consists of African buffalo, water buffalo, and three small relatives on southeast Asian islands( mountain anoa,lowland anoa, and tamaraw).The “not buffalo” branch has both species of bison as well as all other cattle. American bison are often called buffalo. I don’t believe the FAO statistics on “buffalo” include bison, partially because FAO has no data on “buffalo” slaughter in the US http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QL . But the USA does keep track of Bison slaughter, with 56,900 bison commercially slaughtered in the USA in 2018.https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/r207tp32d/8336h934w/hq37vx004/lsslan19.pdf. According to https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/2815/123789863, 97% of the global population is captive and managed for private commercial interests( though this may only include mature individuals). There were,in 2016, between 119,314-145,000 (depending on how we count non-breeding animals born that year, animals slaughtered that year, and animals exported) bison living on canadian farms.A total of 11,591 bison were slaughtered that year in Canada https://www.canadianbison.ca/resources/resources/data-and-statistics/slaughter-capacity. Assuming the same ratio of slaughter/population in the US and Canada, the US farmed bison population is between 585,710 and 711,802 individuals. Total US and Canada farmed bison population is between 705,024,and 856,802. I haven’t looked into farmed bison numbers in other countries. The mature free roaming/semi free roaming population American bison population is 11,248-13,123 according to the IUCN. Assuming all estimates are true, and those farmed in the US and Canada are nearly all farmed individuals globally, there is a non-farmed-captive/ wild-juvenile American bison population of between 8,027 and 14,457.
Some numbers I dug up back when this article was new but I didn’t make an account
Capture of Eels outside Europe: the author estimates that between 28-350 million young eels are captured in Europe for export to be raised in Japan for meat. Eels are also caught in Maine, and to a lesser degree in south Carolina, to send to japan( in fact before I read the article knew of the Maine trade but not the European trade), http://www.asmfc.org/files/Meetings/78AnnualMeeting/AmericanEelBoardSupplemental.pdf
9,194 pounds of glass eels( eels in the suitable age range) were legally caught,, but only counts the legal trade. This article ,https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d00467/gangsters-cash-in-on-e
ndangered-eels.html says 13.6 tons worth of eels are caught in japan, and 40% of the capture in Japan is undocumented and possibly illegal, if we extrapolate this 40% figure to the US capture we get 15,323. And 1⁄3 pounds, Eels are also brought from taiwan and china, with 80% of young eels coming from China, according to this article:https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Food-Beverage/China-clamps-down-on-baby-eel-trade-in-blow-to-unagi-restaurants. 15 tons of young eels were stocked in the spring of 2019, vs 19.7 tons in the 2015-2016 season, suggesting the trade is declining. using the estimates the author gave,it seems 24,326,915 eels were caught in the USA(assuming Japanese statistics on illegal trade)( for scale comparison, that’s about a little less then the number of buffaloes slaughtered annually) , 47,600,000 eels caught in Japan,(for scale, around the lower estimate for how many ducks and geese killed for foe gra annually) with 52,500,000 caught eels stocked in japan in spring in 2019( about how many birds not otherwise specified by the FAO are slaughtered annually), differences in number of eels caught versus stocked, are likely due to eels dying in transit, or a conversion error somewhere on my part, or inaccurate reporting.
USA Canned Hunting/deer farming/ new world quails: The author makes note of the breeding of chukar partridge and pheasant in the USA as game,( though strangely leaves out the 69,110 grey partridge from this paper he cites https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2017/Full_Report/Volume_1,_Chapter_1_US/usv1.pdf) and the breeding of large animals in south Africa for hunting, but not the breeding of large animals in the US for hunting(,witch is so large it has spawned wild introduced populations of nilgai , aoudad and blackbuck in the American southwest), which occurs mainly in Texas. In This article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/us/exotic-hunting-texas-ranch.html a Texas State University Professor of biology says 1.3 million animals are being raised for exotic hunting in the US.( about the same number as crocodilians being farmed), It also says there are more blackbuck on ranches then in there native range of India, but this is refuted by the IUCN https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/1681/50181949#population.
However many animals raised on these ranches are deer, I don’t know. the author says 212,449 farmed deer in the US ( around the tentative low estimate for number of working animals in the world), sighting this document
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2017/Full_Report/Volume_1,_Chapter_1_US/st99_1_0032_0034.pdf I am assuming, considering elk are listed separately( at a farmed population of 31,555), that “deer” here, refers only to white tailed deer and mule deer, and excludes more “exotic species”.This article: https://modernfarmer.com/2014/02/deer-farming-next-adventure-agriculture/ uses the term “cervid industry” and alludes to the farming of red deer, elk, reindeer, white tailed deer, fallow deer, axis deer, and sika deer. I have no idea if red deer would count as deer or elk, considering how closely related and similar they are. Red deer are European, as are fallow deer. Axis deer are from India and sika deer from Japan, meaning( I think?) their numbers may be more likely to be included in the data on canned hunting. Some places also farm mule deer https://www.facebook.com/muledeerfarm. In short this is a mess and I have no idea which species are being grouped under the “deer” “exotic game” label, neither or both. I do think it’s worth mentioning it though. A similar problem exists with quail, the author estimates 400-550 million quail are farmed, but only mentions farming for eggs and meat, with no acknowledgement of the use of quail farmed as game, strangely https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2017/Full_Report/Volume_1,_Chapter_1_US/usv1.pdf, distinguishes between partridge species but not quail species. The quail traditionally kept as livestock is the Japanese quail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_quail#cite_note-two-3, though supposedly japanese/common quail hybrids are bred to restock Europe in the thousands( wikipedia sources behind paywall), while I understand quail farmed for hunting in the US are mostly native species, especially bobwhite, and to a lesser extent others such as Gambel’s and mountain quails https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_quail, https://alifeofheritage.com/farm-living/raising-quail/,.Once again it is unclear how many species are being counted by the original sources. estimates for the number of farmed quail in spain is questionable, as they are based on the amount of quail meat produced, which could come from wild European quail that were hunted.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_quail.
American Bison: Now here is when things get confusing, and it is time for a taxonomy/etymology lesson.If we ignore the saola( a “living fossil” that diverged from the others early on, and resembles the very earliest cattle), Cattle can be divided into a ‘buffalo” branch and a ’not buffalo”branch. The buffalo branch consists of African buffalo, water buffalo, and three small relatives on southeast Asian islands( mountain anoa,lowland anoa, and tamaraw).The “not buffalo” branch has both species of bison as well as all other cattle. American bison are often called buffalo. I don’t believe the FAO statistics on “buffalo” include bison, partially because FAO has no data on “buffalo” slaughter in the US http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QL . But the USA does keep track of Bison slaughter, with 56,900 bison commercially slaughtered in the USA in 2018.https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/r207tp32d/8336h934w/hq37vx004/lsslan19.pdf. According to https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/2815/123789863, 97% of the global population is captive and managed for private commercial interests( though this may only include mature individuals). There were,in 2016, between 119,314-145,000 (depending on how we count non-breeding animals born that year, animals slaughtered that year, and animals exported) bison living on canadian farms.A total of 11,591 bison were slaughtered that year in Canada https://www.canadianbison.ca/resources/resources/data-and-statistics/slaughter-capacity. Assuming the same ratio of slaughter/population in the US and Canada, the US farmed bison population is between 585,710 and 711,802 individuals. Total US and Canada farmed bison population is between 705,024,and 856,802. I haven’t looked into farmed bison numbers in other countries. The mature free roaming/semi free roaming population American bison population is 11,248-13,123 according to the IUCN. Assuming all estimates are true, and those farmed in the US and Canada are nearly all farmed individuals globally, there is a non-farmed-captive/ wild-juvenile American bison population of between 8,027 and 14,457.
Pig-tailed-macaques used to harvest Coconuts
Globally 62,000,000 tons of coconuts were harvested in 2018. http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QC according to FAO. An average coconut weighs 680 grams.https://www.reference.com/world-view/much-coconut-weigh-5faa7de1113733e7. 680 grams is about 0.00068 metric tons. The annual coconut harvest is around 91,176,470,600 coconuts, or 249,798,549.6 per day.https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/19/448960760/monkeys-pick-coconuts-in-thailand-are-they-abused-or-working-animals (sidenote: NPR, an anthropologist is not a good source on whether these monkeys are being abused or not). A female can pick 600 a day, and a male 1,600, so on average they can pick 1,100 a day. Around 85% of coconuts are harvested in southeast Asia, where this method is supposedly the norm https://allamericanvegan.com/2015/02/19/did-an-abused-monkey-pick-your-coconut/. If 100% of coconuts were harvested in southeast asia this way, then around 193,026 macaques were used to harvest Coconuts. Supposedly 99% of coconuts in Thailand in particular are harvested this way. 885,751 tons of coconuts in 2018 were harvested In Thailand, or 1,302,575,000 coconuts, of which supposedly 1,289,549,250 were harvested by around 3,212 pig tailed macaques.