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People never ate much fish or depended so heavily on the sector for their welfare as they do today. The world consumption of fish per capita increased from 9.9 kg in 1960 to 19.2 kg in 2012. However, Brazil accounted for only 0.86% of world fish production in 2009. The North Region led the setting of fishing continental extraction (54.6%) driven by Amazonas and Pará states in 2009, but came in last place in the continental aquaculture production (10.61%) driven by Amazonas and Rondônia states. Thus, the objective of this study was to understand fish farming in the state of Rondônia in 2009 with data from a questionnaire applied to producers about area in hectares of fish farming, the number of fish stocked, and production in tons. The state of Rondônia produced 11,455.67 tons of fish in fish farming in 2009. Porto Velho was the site with one of the smaller areas and lower production of fish farming, but had the highest stocking density; while Mirante da Serra was the municipality with the largest area and highest production of fish farming, but had one of the lowest stocking densities. On the other hand, Colorado do Oeste was the site that had the highest density storage with smaller area, but its aquaculture production was intermediate compared with other municipalities. The fish farming industry is favored in Rondônia because of the high amount of fish intake in the North region and favorable conditions of production of aquatic organisms. However, it is crucial investments and incentives through public policies to increase the supply and consumption of this food in Brazil, as well as the maintenance of the intake pattern in the North and Northeast Regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]