Aquatic Resource Trade in Species (ARTIS) Database v1.2 FAO 1996-2020

Food systems have become increasingly globalized, with over a quarter of all food now traded internationally.
Seafood is among the most highly traded foods and it is becoming increasingly globalized, with trade doubling in recent decades.
At the same time, seafood is now widely recognized as a critical source of nutrition.
Thus, social and environmental threats to local seafood production, including environmental extremes, price impacts of market integration, networked risks, and increased availability of processed foods, must be evaluated in the context of global trade.
However, our collective understanding of the environmental and human outcomes of food system globalization is limited by a fundamental gap between production and trade data.
We bridge this gap in the Aquatic Resource Trade in Species (ARTIS) database by providing the first global estimates of aquatic species trade flows.
ARTIS includes bilateral trade flows disaggregated by taxa, production source, and geographic source in the "trade" files and estimated apparent consumption that uses the disaggregated trade data along with production to estimate apparent consumption by taxa, production source, and geographic source in the "consumption" files.
The ARTIS v1.2 FAO database covers global aquatic species trade from 1996 to 2020 across six Harmonized System (HS) versions, providing consumption and trade estimates for 2774 taxa across 194 countries, alongside six reference tables.