Moving offshore for fish farming

Integrated livestock-fish farming systems Integrated livestock-fish farming systems

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Environmental issues of fish farming in offshore waters: perspectives, concerns and research needs

Offshore fish farming is predicted to increase in the near future driven by the lack of coastal space. In this review I discuss the environmental issues of offshore farming from experience in coastal farms. Even more so than in coastal farms, a rapid and wide dispersal of dissolved waste products is predicted for offshore farms. Despite wider dispersal of particulate waste products, fast sinkin...

Carotenoids in ornamental fish farming

      The aquaculture industry has grown dramatically in recent years, with a multimillion-dollar market. There are a variety of freshwater fish, marine fish, mollusks, and ornamental fish cultivated in this industry. The pigment and coloring of ornamental fish are important characteristics for marketing. In edible fish, carotenoids are responsible for the pigmentation of body tissue, while in ...

Sea-cage Fish Farming and Declines of Wild Fish

It has often been observed that after sea-cage fish farming begins in a coastal area, nearby wild fish populations steadily or precipitously decline due to elevated levels of pathogens and parasites. Such declines can be understood using three methods, in increasing level of mathematical difficulty: (1) an intuitive approach based on the inverse-square law of radiation applied to parasite trans...

Precolumbian Fish Farming in the Amazon