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| | minnesota sea grant - aquaculture - fish farming: is it for you? |
 | | Fish farming, or aquaculture, has attracted the attention of farmers, landowners, and investors as an alternative agriculture enterprise. | | | Is the topography and soil suitable for a fish farm operation? | | | If you are considering fish farming, this checklist can help you determine whether a fish farming enterprise is feasible for your particular situation. |
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http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/aqua/farming.html
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| | Roofwater Fish Farm |
| | Fish are fed earthworms, insect larvae and pelleted food. | | | Much of the fish food can be home-grown earthworms and insect larvae. | | | But her story is also instructive from the point of view of starting up a fish farm in a backyard or an urban fringe (periurban) farm - or even on a larger farm, where diversification is possible. |
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http://www.cityfarmer.org/fishfarm.html
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| | October 3, 2000: Fish Farming May Soon Overtake Cattle Ranching |
| | Fish farming is not a solution to the world food problem, but as China has demonstrated, it does offer a potential source of low-cost animal protein for lower income populations. | | | Climbing from 13 million tons of fish produced in 1990 to 31 million tons in 1998, fish farming is poised to overtake cattle ranching as a food source by the end of this decade. | | | But the fish farming advantage in the efficiency of grain conversion translates into a comparable advantage in water efficiency as well, even when the relatively small amount of water for fish ponds is included. |
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http://www.earth-policy.org/Alerts/Alert9.htm
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| | Factory Farming - Seafood Production |
| | The quantity of farm-raised fish has doubled over the past decade and is "one of the fastest growing food producing sectors," according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). | | | As the water pours through, fish who have survived the ordeal of "harvest" and transportation die of suffocation. | | | An FDA Veterinarian article explains that fish farmers "use chemicals as disinfectants and to kill bacteria; herbicides to prevent the overgrowth of vegetation in ponds; vaccines to fight certain diseases; and drugs - usually combined in the feed - to treat diseases and parasites." |
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http://www.factoryfarming.com/fish.htm
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| | Commercial Fishing, Fish Farming, and Fish Eating |
| | Fish farms are usually sited on coasts or in bays, where the worst pollution levels are found due to industry, agriculture and sewage. | | | Fish farming shares many of the problems of other intensive animal farming, not only causing suffering to fish, but resulting in pollution of the environment and destruction of wildlife. | | | The eating of fish, whether from commercial sources or intensively farmed, is unjustifiable on the basis of the cruelty inflicted on the fish and damage to the environment. |
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http://www.pisces.demon.co.uk/factshe6.html
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| | David Suzuki Foundation: Oceans and fishing: Aquaculture |
| | The other most-common farmed seafood are shellfish like oysters, clams, mussels, scallops, and shrimp which are mainly produced in tropical nations where coastal mangrove forests have been cut down and replaced with shrimp farms that supply markets in Europe, Japan and the US. | | | Clams and some types of oysters are farmed on beaches where habitat can be damaged from bad farming practices like driving large vehicles on the beach and changing entire ecosystems to accommodate the farmed species, which is often not native to the area. | | | The ecological impact of fish farming ranges from benign to catastrophic, and depends on which species are raised, how they are raised and where the farm is located. |
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http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Oceans/Aquaculture
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| | Fish Farming a Bust - Various Authors .... reefs.org Article |
| | Among the practices that the study says contribute to that acceleration is feeding wild caught fish to farmed fish. | | | There are reports now that the farmed fish are breeding in some rivers. | | | What's more, the researchers say, fish farming has created vast amounts of animal waste that has fouled coastal areas where fish and shellfish are being raised. |
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http://www.reefs.org/library/article/fish_farming_bust.html
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| | FishingHurts.com >> Fish Farms |
| | Conditions on some farms are so horrendous that 40 percent of the fish may die before farmers can kill and package them for food. | | | All fish farms are rife with pollution, disease, and suffering, regardless of their location. | | | Ocean-based aquafarms are situated close to shorelines, and fish in these farms are packed into net or mesh cages. |
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http://www.fishinghurts.com/fishFarms.asp
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| | Freshwater Fish Farming in Virginia: Selecting the Right Fish to Raise |
| | Major drawbacks to farming this fish are that they require higher growing temperatures and are less hardy than fathead minnows. | | | Catfish farming is the leading fish farming industry in the United States. | | | This plant is farmed in flooded fields and often rotated with rice in the southeastern United States. |
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http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/fisheries/420-010/420-010.html#L10
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| | Farming Fish: The Aquaculture Boom World Resources Institute Fact Sheet Undated 31jan01 |
| | Aquaculture -- the farming of fish, shrimp, shellfish, and seaweeds -- has been a source of human protein for nearly 4,000 years, especially in Asia [1]. | | | These carp are raised primarily as a supplementary activity to regular crop agriculture on Chinese farms. | | | For one, fish farming requires both land and water—two resources already in short supply in many areas. |
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http://www.mindfully.org/Food/WRI-Aquaculture-Boom.htm
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| | Trout Imports & Fish Farming Related News |
| | Fish farms are bad news not only for their effluent, but also for their 'contamination' of the wild fish stocks. | | | Salmon farming is noted as being a contributory factor. | | | The Loch Nevis farm and the Loch Creran farms are owned by Hydro Seafoods GSP a satellite company of the Norwegian conglomerate, Norsk Hydro. |
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http://www.geocities.com/ken_sims_98/nzffa/politic.htm
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| | Fish farming is the practice of raising fish and other aquatic creatures for human consumption. | | | The practice of farming fish in water is also called aquaculture. | | | The optimal size for domes to be used in the Back Yard Fish Farm would be 25 feet in diameter. |
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http://iranandworld.com/showarticle.asp?id=44
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| | Fish farming in a regional economic perspective Mikkelsen, Pal Oslo : Norsk institutt for landbruksokonomisk forskning,; 1989. | | | Language: English Descriptors: Ontario; Cabt; Fish farming; Farmers' attitudes; Veterinarians 62 NAL Call. | | | No.: 389.8 F7322 Nutrients in wild and farmed fish and shellfish. |
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http://netvet.wustl.edu/species/fish/qb9444.txt
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| | Fish farming Defending our Oceans |
| | It is common to regularly dose farmed fish with antibiotics in their food to protect against disease. | | | Salmon farming involves the raising and feeding of vast numbers of fish in small contained net pens. | | | The nets are typically located in the fast-flowing waters of estuary heads, so that the toxic faeces, uneaten food pellets, parasitic lice, dead fish, escaped non-native fish as well as chemical and antibiotic residues, are distributed over the whole estuarine ecosystem. |
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http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/our-oceans/fish-farming
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| | FactoryFarm.org: Industrial Fish Farming: Information & Resources |
| | Fish are also increasingly used in the laboratory as animal models in studies that might otherwise employ mice or other mammalian species. | | | The use of fish as a food source has grown, with aquaculture being one of the most rapidly expanding food industries. | | | Salmon farms are like underwater factory farms, but with far more devastating ecological consequences. |
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http://www.factoryfarm.org/topics/fish
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| | 'Guilt-free' fish farming arrives |
| | Environmentalists wave a laundry list of concerns over salmon farms, which tend to be located in protected bays: accumulation of disease, waste, chemicals and other contaminants in the ecosystem; and escaped farmed fish, which compete with wild fish for resources or interbreed. | | | If wild fish are processed to feed farmed fish, critics say it's impossible for a farm to be considered sustainable. | | | Once the eggs hatch, the newborn fish are fed a zooplankton that Kona Blue cultivates on site (the company also grows the microalgae necessary to feed the zooplankton). |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/food/260433_kampachi22.html
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| | Untapped Waters For Fish Farming - CBS News |
| | Fish farming has drawn criticism from environmentalists, however, who say food fed to farmed fish can pollute the water, create excessive waste in a concentrated area and increase the possibility of parasites and disease in farmed fish. | | | NOAA said there are advantages to locating fish farms farther off shore including water depth, currents and water quality. | | | (AP) The Bush administration, seeking to tap into one of the world's fastest-growing food industries, is proposing to allow fish farming up to 200 miles off the nation's coasts. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/07/tech/main700208.shtml
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| | USATODAY.com - Fish-farming pioneer wins 'Nobel of food' |
| | The farmers, most of them poor women and landless farmers, typically raise as few as 200 fish, feeding the carp and tilapia farm waste such as rice and wheat bran. | | | In wet, low-lying countries such as Bangladesh and Laos, farmers routinely excavate soil to raise the level of their houses. | | | The $250,000 World Food Prize, considered by many the Nobel Prize of food and agriculture, was awarded today to an Indian scientist credited with launching a "blue revolution" (a rapid increase in fish production) in the developing world. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-10-12-world-food-prize_x.htm
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| | Fish Farming News - Aquaculture's National Newspaper |
| | Anguilla Fish Farm owner Dugan Whiteside, left, and assistant farm manager Tommy Noles show off market-sized hybrid striped bass from their facility in northeastern Florida. | | | WASHINGTON, DC – It has been a long wait for US fish farmers, but in October the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first new in-feed antibiotic for finfish in more than two decades. | | | The antimicrobial is also the first drug approved under changes put in place by the Minor Use and Minor Species Animal Health Act (MUMS), which passed Congress and was signed into law in 2004. |
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http://www.fish-news.com/ffn.htm
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| | Electronic Zoo / NetVet Veterinary Resources - Fish Sites |
| | USDA ARS Fish Diseases and Parasites Research Unit | | | Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia (US FDA Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition) | | | Virtual North - Fishing & Wildlife Adventures in Canada |
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http://netvet.wustl.edu/fish.htm
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| | Asmak - The International Fish Farming Company, Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| | International Fish Farming Company (P.J.S.C.), ASMAK, is a pioneer and leading aquaculture company in the UAE and Middle East region. | | | The business activities of ASMAK span all aspects of aquaculture industry, namely - hatcheries, fish farming, processing and packaging, fish feed, fish farming equipment, marketing, distribution, export and consulting. | | | Asmak, the International Fish Farming Company has appointed the Dammam-based Al Oneizi Trading Establishment as the distributor for its fresh farmed and seafood products in the eastern and central provinces of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. |
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http://www.asmak.biz
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| | Fish Farming, Aquaculture Consultants, Consulting, Fish Farms: Fisheries Technology Associates |
| | ..a full-service fish farming, aquaculture, and fisheries consulting firm. | | | Fish Farming, Aquaculture Consultants, Consulting, Fish Farms: Fisheries Technology Associates | | | Fish Hatcheries and Fish Farms, Financing Searches, and Buyer Searches |
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http://www.ftai.com
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| | Guidance Fish Farming Manual |
| | Letter (Outstanding Application for Fish Farm Medicines 21 days notice.) | | | XI Guidance on the use of emamectin benzoate at Marine Cage Fish Farms | | | Cage Fish Farms: Sea Lice Treatment Chemicals Risk Assessment of Azamethiphos |
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http://www.sepa.org.uk/guidance/fishfarmmanual/manual.asp
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| | Fishupdate.com |
| | Contract landings will lead to over quota fishing. | | | Mediterranian diet may reduce risk of dementia by up to 40 percent | | | Canada: Salmon farming can co-exist with traditional values, says First Nation official |
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http://www.fishupdate.com
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