Environmental Impacts of Fish Aquaculture
LSSU College of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences
POLI 342 International Environmental Policy
Nate Sleight
Aquaculture Management
The Issue
- Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
- Emphasis on sustainable aquaculture
- Use fish waste as fertilizer
- Lowers cost of agriculture
- Can be used for fish food
What is preventing action?
- Water quality degradation
- Lots of fish fecal matter
- Increase of nutrients
- Fish health
- disease easily spread
- How should aquaculture be managed?
Why use Aquaculture?
- Sustainable aquaculture is expensive
- Just the initail investment
- Majority is in developing countries
- 88% is the Asian Pacific
- Little to regulations in effect
- Little to no enforcement
Aquaculture
- Fish is cheaper to produce than other forms of livestock
- Fish is higher in protein
- Can be produced quickly
- One solution to help supply the world with food
- Fish farms
- Becoming more and more popular around the world
- 40% of the worlds fish comes from aquaculture
What do you think??
World Population is Growing
- Is a cheap effective means of food
- Less than other livestock
- High energy content
- Has more sustainable outlook
- Needs more regulation and enforcement
- World population is steadily on the rise
- growth rate of about 2% annually
- Where will people get essentials needed for life?
- Shelter, water, and food