Cobia, the only species in the family Rachycentridae, is a migratory pelagic fish that occurs in tropical and subtropical seas of the world, except in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean. In 1984 production was only 50 metric tones a year, reaching more than 58,000 in 2012. The main producer in China, and in the past years several countries, Colombia among them, have started projects for cage production of this specie.