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| What is aquaculture? |
| Aquaculture is the production of aquatic animals and plants under controlled conditions for all or part of their lifecycle. Basically it is farming in water. |
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| Why does aquaculture matter? |
| At the current rate of population growth, there are another 203,800 more people to feed every day - and our planet has finite resources with which to do it.
Seafood makes a healthy and essential contribution. People love fish, shrimp, lobster and shellf |
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| How are fish farmed? |
| Open net pens or cages are used to farm many cold water marine species such as salmon, flounder, halibut, cod and haddock and warm water species such as Pacific Threadfin and Amberjack. Shrimp, catfish and tilapia are usually grown in closed ponds.
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| How many species of aquatic animal are farmed worldwide? |
| There are no definite numbers, but 115 families and 336 individual species were officially registered by FAO in 2004. |
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| I’ve heard that it takes three tonnes of wild caught fish to make a tonne of fishmeal; is this true? |
| No. This is a common misconception. Fishmeal and fish oil make up just a portion of a fish feed which also contains a wide range of other ingredients |
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| Taken overall, how much wild fish does aquacult |
| For every tonne of wild fish used in aquafeed, world aquaculture produces nearly two tonnes of seafood. |
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| What sort of wild fish are caught for fishmeal? |
| Fishmeal and oil produced from caught wild fish are produced mainly from small, bony pelagic species for which there is little demand for human consumption. They are short-lived, fast growing species and are generally capable of very rapid reproduction an |
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| Does all fishmeal come from these type of fish? |
| No. In the European Union for instance, about 40% of fishmeal is produced not from wild fish caught for this purpose, but from trimmings from fish that are processed for human food. In six out of seven producing Member Countries, the majority of fishmeal |
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| Does the amount of fish taken from the ocean to |
| The majority of wild fish stocks used to produce fishmeal and fish oil are within safe biological limits. Stocks are monitored according to scientific advice and subject to national and international management regimes that are recognized and supported by |
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| What else goes into aquaculture feeds? |
| In the wild, some aquatic species eat only other fish. Others are grazers, munching on seaweeds and other algae while some are omnivorous and will eat insects, plants and fish and some will eat almost anything they can find, including dead animals and fis |
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| Where can I find the facts about farmed salmon? |
| Visit: http://salmonfacts.blogspot.com |
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