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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
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