aquaculture, definition of

Cultivation of aquatic plants or animals for harvest and utilization by humans. Usually aquaculture refers to fresh water cultivation, while mariculture refers to seawater cultivation

• Health of Fish Stocks Contradict Climate Alarmists Predictions
  In 2020, there was a record 214 million tonnes of production from both wild catches and aquaculture
• Sea Stone Project recycles seashells into mirrors and vases
  Every year around seven million tons of seashells are tossed out from aquaculture and fishing industries. Although shells are a natural material, when they are stacked in discard piles, they emit odors and are unpleasant to look at. While some industries...
• Surprising ways seaweed benefits the environment
  While the news often mentions the terrible things in the sea, such as gyres of plastic and other trash, the oceans also hold an extremely valuable resource: seaweed...
• Study calls budding octopus farm industry unethical and unsustainable
  A new study by an international group of scientists denounces the up-and-coming octopus farming industry as both detrimental to fragile marine ecosystems and unethical given their high intelligence...
• Indonesia builds a resilient "living shoreline"
  The Demak District on Indonesia’s most populous island of Java is four years into a five-year plan to restore its disappearing and degraded shoreline. In a collaborative and holistic approach to nature restoration and sustainable development, local...
• HOK designs aquaponics facility to alleviate Kansas Citys food desert
  Nonprofit Nile Valley Aquaponics is raising fish in a Kansas City food desert—and they’re creating jobs, providing healthy food and promoting sustainable urban farming in the process...
• These fish and meat options are the most environmentally costly
  Farmed seafood, wild-caught fish, or livestock: which one is the most environmentally costly to produce? A University of Washington-led study probed that question by scrutinizing 148 life-cycle assessments for animal protein production...
• The disturbing reason so many farmed salmon are partially deaf
  Farmed salmon are "three times more likely to be partially deaf" than wild salmon, according to the University of Melbourne's Pursuit publication. Roughly every second farmed salmon that humans consume has lost a great deal of its ability to hear. And...
• Innovative urban park in Copenhagen floats nature-infused aquatic islands
  C.F. Møller Landscape’s competition-winning vision applies a radical transformation to the existing site that currently acts as a barrier between the waterfront and harbor. The landscape architects reconnect the urban fabric with the harbor basin by...
• World’s first farm to grow food and fuel in the desert opens in Abu Dhabi
  The world's first research facility to grow both food and fuel has opened in the United Arab Emirates. Located on a 2-hectacre site in Abu Dhabi, the desert facility uses coastal seawater irritation to raise fish and shrimp for food, while growing salt-tolerant...

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