We should work on ways to improve fish farming techniques and make them more sustainable.
And yes, I know that fish farming itself can be harmful to the local environment.
One of the most contentious debates in the seafood community involves the sustainability of fish farming.
Landcatch Natural Selection said the research could create the "perfect salmon" and revolutionise the fish farming industry.
And indeed, broadly speaking, modern intensive fish farming does harm the environment, although the extent varies enormously.
Selonda UK was jointly owned by the Greek fish farming enterprise Selonda and a Saudi based business called Jazadco.
Fish farming's supporters argue that it could meet the growing shortfall as wild fisheries become more and more exhausted.
Instead, Goudey and a handful of other schemers hope to relocate fish farming, or aquaculture, from sensitive and expensive coastal areas to the open ocean.
Scotland's fish farming industry could face stricter regulation through new legislation.
While universities pump out a ton of research on fish farming, much of it doesn't get commercialized, and the duo didn't want to be locked into one bet.
Some think the best way to tackle the fishing crisis is to encourage the growth of fish farming a blue revolution in this century to match the green revolution of the last.
Which is a shame, because the U.S. has the largest federal water zone in the world, with more ocean area suitable for deep-water fish farming than the country has arable land area.
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And recently, researchers in aquaculture (fish farming) have discovered that cottonseed meal makes a high-quality fish food.18 Catfish, in particular, appear to love cottonseed meal, and will eat it even when offered fish meal instead.
As fish farming expands and producers attempt to grow larger fish in crowded quarters, the risk of disease and depletion will increase, according to Brian Halweil of the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.
Mera has invested money in causes dear to her heart: a marine fish farming group, a company that looks for cancer treatments in products from the ocean, and a maker of a fingerprinting system for newborns.
Alternative livelihoods such as ecotourism and fish farming could provide an alternative to intensive crop farming, while better management of crops and irrigation and the adoption of alternative energy sources such as solar power would all contribute to environmental sustainability.
"We measure the ecological load an area can take and we offer licences only where were convinced there is a proper balance between effects of fish farming and the ability of local environment to absorb the effects of farming, " says Stewart Stevenson the Scottish Minister for Environment and Climate Change.
In this admirable account of salmon evolution and conservation, David Montgomery, a professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington, argues that the solution to declining salmon stocks for which read declining fish stocks of any species is neither fish-farming nor fish hatcheries, but the creation of sanctuaries in rivers and at sea.
Oh, yes, and Yap has just published a business book on the management lessons he's learned from fish-farming, each chapter starring a different variety of fish he raises.
Pity the thousands of expensive tropical fish who died along the way as a Singapore family tried to figure out fish-farming.
But what really separates Qian Hu from the many mom-and-pop businesses of the tropical-fish-farming industry is the attention paid to safely shipping such a fragile creature to customers overseas.
It's always hard to say how much this kind of personal branding contributes to the success of a business, especially one like fish-farming that's easy to enter but hard to master.
"Fish-farming on a local basis exists throughout Southeast Asia, but to become a global presence a firm must overcome this obstacle, " says Gerald Bassleer, managing director of the industry's trade group, the Ornamental Fish International in the Netherlands.
Both oenophiles and salmon lovers can see which vineyards are taking action via Fish Friendly Farming, a certification project from the non-profit and Napa-based California Land Stewardship Institute, which gives its stamp of approval to wineries and farms that work on habitat and water-quality issues.
Farming fish close to shore often causes contamination of water and seabeds, so the company has partnered with fish producers to devise a remotely-controlled fish pen that can drift with currents in the open sea.
To provide jobs and stop their children leaving the land, they want government support to develop agro-industrial projects, such as fish and fruit farming and market gardening, says Ilda de Souza, leader of a co-operative there.
In practice, they provide cheap labour (mainly from Asia) for the garment industry, farming and fish-processing.
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