3/20/11-90 minutes
I found a fantastic article entitled "Advances in Open Ocean Aquaculture Technology and the Future of Seafood Production." It was full of useful facts and the pros and cons of aquaculture. It also included information about what is being done to counteract the negatives of aquaculture. It provided me with another argument in favor of aquaculture. Other food industries may be employed to feed carnivorous stocks in fish farms. Scientists are currently trying to find alternatives to fishmeal and fish oil used to feed fish in farms because it requires harvesting and exploiting natural fish populations. They have experimented with soybean oil and achieved some success. It also provided statistics from last year, which are more recent than some I found in an earlier article.
The second article concerned the effects of FZTs (parasites that can use fish as a host to infect humans). Several researchers studied fisheries in Vietnam and discovered that FZTs are a serious problem that need to be addressed if the aquaculture industry is going to continue to expand and grow.
The third article I read today concerned a specific fish species used for open sea fish farming, cobia, but it had some excellent general information concerning aquaculture. It brought up another negative side to aquaculture (or what some may see as a negative): government regulation of the industry to prevent monopolies and control distribution of water real estate.
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