Tuesday, June 7, 2011

US soybeans - making aquaculture more sustainable

Aquaculture is the fastest growing form of food production in the world, accounting for 50 percent of all seafood consumed globally. Faced with gravely endangered wild fish stocks, aquaculture is increasingly bridging the gap between declining supply and growing global demand for healthful seafood.

Although aquaculture has become more eco-friendly due to advances in fish biology and operational technology in recent years, environmental concerns remain about the inclusion of fishmeal and fish oil from wild-caught resources in aquafeeds. Feed conversion ratios are a factor in determining an aquaculture product's sustainability how many pounds of wild fish in feed it takes to produce a pound of farmed fish. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers

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