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Aquaculture
Also Known As Fish farming (its most visible branch)
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Farming in water: the controlled raising of fish, crustaceans, mollusks and algae, husbandry's youngest large branch and its fastest-growing one. In 2022 farmed production passed wild capture for the first time, and by 2024 aquaculture supplied 103 million tonnes of aquatic animals, more than half of world output and nearly six tenths of what people actually eat from the water. The domestication story every land chapter of this atlas tells is happening in ponds and pens now, within living memory.
Facts
Central QuestionHow can aquatic animals and plants be raised at scale without exhausting the waters, feeds and wild stocks the farming itself depends on? 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
Food Security, Concepts Farmed fish and shellfish are among the fastest-growing sources of protein counted toward global food security.
Sources
1. Aquaculture (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead section; 2022 and 2024 production figuresQuote, Lead section; 2022 and 2024 production figures
Aquaculture is the controlled cultivation of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value.
1. Aquaculture (Wikipedia)
Fish Farming (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationExtensive aquaculture sectionQuote, Extensive aquaculture section
Extensive aquaculture relies on small or no external inputs of labour and feed, compared to what is being produced, and is the oldest, most likely originating in China around 4000 years ago.
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