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Aquaculture

Aquaculture is the practice of growing aquatic organisms - fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and aquatic plants – under controlled conditions. When growing fish is combined with growing plants, it is called aquaponics or Integrated multi-tropic aquaculture.

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What animals are raised in aquaculture?

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Betwee salmon, carp, tilapia, European seabass, catfish and cod which are the principal fish on aquaculture, tilapia has the higuest count of all.

How many aquaculture farms are there in the US?

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"Factory farm" is just a term used by opponents of large-scale animal agriculture to refer to Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations or CAFO's. There are approximately 15,000 CAFO's in the US according to the US Department of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Agency.

Identify a benefit and a possible disadvantage of aquaculture?

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It reduces fishing pressure on some wild stocks

How does aquaculture affect people?

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by soil erosion

How is aquaculture helpful?

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i believe that aquaculture is about water and marine life i think this because of the name aquaculture and aqua is water.

How can you use aquaculture in a sentence?

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Aquaculture means raising food in an underwater "farm." Here are some sentences.

  • We raised enough food by aquaculture to last for the winter.
  • He tried aquaculture, but he couldn't make the plants grow.
  • They raised seaweed by aquaculture.

What is the raising of aquatic animals for human food called?

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Aquaculture is raising aquatic animals for human food.

What environmental factors may limit the growth of aquaculture?

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Such environmental issues include aquatic pollution as a result of urbanization and

industrialization in the area, sand filling and dredging of harbor, pesticide run-off from agricultural land, conflict of land use between aquaculture and industries, tourism, and others.

What are the pros and cons of aquaculture?

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There are many pros and cons of agricultural biotechnology. One disadvantage is that it eliminates a lot of farming jobs.

What is extensive aquaculture?

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extensive aquaculture is low production, low cost aquaculture. An example of this would be if you had a pond for raising Tilapia in Africa, and were only raising them to feed the community you were in.

What is an escapment?

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It's a small part of a clock or watch that regulates timing.

Differentiate between capture fishery mariculture and aquaculture-?

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Capture fishing is where fish is obtained from natural sources, and mariculture involves having marine fish for commercial purposes, while aquaculture involves production of aquatic animals considered of high economic value.

How many fish per volume of water in aquaculture?

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10 hope that helped you.