Aquaculture
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The animals are ground into fish meal to support increasing demands for
aquaculture
and for nutraceuticals such as krill oil.
And finally, because it's an offshore structure, we can think in terms of how it might contribute to an
aquaculture
activity offshore.
Unless you look at the system as a way to treat waste water, sequester carbon, and potentially for photovoltaic panels or wave energy or even wind energy, and if you start thinking in terms of integrating all of these different activities, you could also include in such a facility
aquaculture.
So we would have under this system a shellfish
aquaculture
where we're growing mussels or scallops.
Biofuels production is integrated with alternative energy is integrated with
aquaculture.
Aquaculture
depends on antibiotics too, particularly in Asia, and fruit growing relies on antibiotics to protect apples, pears, citrus, against disease.
The other half of the story is this incredible boom in fish farming and aquaculture, which is now, only in the last year or two, starting to exceed the amount of wild fish that we produce.
Well, we could also try to grow tuna but tuna is a spectacularly bad animal for
aquaculture.
So as a result, we've turned to aquaculture, and salmon is one the most successful, at least from a numbers point of view.
Aquaculture
is the fastest growing food system on the planet.
But a few months after we got off the boat, we got to a meeting at Conservation International, where the Director General of WorldFish was talking about aquaculture, asking a room full of environmentalists to stop turning from it, realize what was going on and to really get involved because
aquaculture
has the potential to be just what our oceans and populations need.
Aquaculture
this year, for the first time in history, actually produces more than what we catch from the wild.
For example, on top of that 65 million tons that's annually caught for human consumption, there's an additional 30 million tons caught for animal feed, mostly sardines and anchovies for the
aquaculture
industry that's turned into fish meal and fish oil.
Recently, an article came out of Stanford saying that if 50 percent of the world's
aquaculture
industry would stop using fish meal, our oceans would be saved.
Fisheries, aquaculture, deforestation, climate change, food security and so on.
And consumers need to put pressure on the
aquaculture
industry to do the right thing.
It’s grown through aquaculture, or aquatic farming.
But different methods of
aquaculture
come with different advantages and issues– some of which echo the serious problems we’ve seen in industrial agriculture.
So how can we avoid repeating the mistakes we’ve made on land, at sea? What
aquaculture
approaches are we currently using, and what does a sustainable way to farm the ocean really look like?
One of the most common
aquaculture
methods involves large pens made of nets, where fish are farmed offshore in floating cages roughly 1000 square meters in size.
All these obstacles can make sustainable
aquaculture
feel a long way off, but innovative farmers are finding new ways to responsibly farm the seas.
So, for better or for worse, aquaculture, fish farming, is going to be a part of our future.
In salmon aquaculture, we kicked off a roundtable almost six years ago.
And yet, next week, we launch globally verified, vetted and certified standards for salmon
aquaculture.
Salmon are carnivorous, however, and to feed the voracious appetite of these legions of farm-raised fish, the
aquaculture
industry increasingly has turned its attention to a small crustacean commonly known as Antarctic krill.
As wild fish populations continue to decrease, in tandem with an ever-growing global appetite for seafood, the pressure on the
aquaculture
industry for fish feed will skyrocket.
The only way to meet it will be through
aquaculture.
Yet, while next-generation
aquaculture
will be far more ecologically responsible than its predecessors, it will also use far more energy.
If that additional energy is not clean and cheap, new
aquaculture
technologies cannot serve our broader environmental and climate goals.
For that reason,
aquaculture
is already the leading mode of fish production for human consumption.
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