Seafood that is grown in aquaculture methods is slowly taking over in the United States. This is good news for both environmentalists and fish farmers because there is certainly no lack of demands for seafood is the United States. With aquacultured fish farming, the pressure on wild fishing will be eased off and population of wild fish can get a chance to revitalize.
A lot of the fish being put on the shelves in the grocery stores are imported from foreign countries. Shrimp and Tillapia are typically being imported from warm waters of Latin American ponds and from the waters of Southeast Asia.
In a recent study by United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization, the United States has the greatest potential in ocean based or seafood based agriculture productions amongst all other countries because much of the fish can be harvested here at home, especially salmon.
According to Michael Rubino, director of aquaculture at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “the entire Norwegian production of salmon, we’re talking a million tons a year, can be grown in an area about the size of the airplane runways at JFK Airport in New York,”…
Read the full article at NourishThePlanet.com.
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