aquaculture
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Aquaculture fish farming in the fjords south of Castro, Chile
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Aquaculture is the farming of fish and other aquatic organisms in controlled water environments like fjords, rather than catching them wild from the ocean. It matters because it provides a way to produce seafood to meet human food needs.
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- Overview
- Species groups
- Aquatic plants
- Seaweed farming
- Fish
- Crustaceans
- Molluscs
- Other groups
- Global fish production
- Over-reporting by China
- Aquacultural methods
- Mariculture
- Integrated
- Urban aquaculture
- Netting materials
- Technology
- Issues
- Impacts on wild fish
- Animal welfare
- Common welfare concerns
- Improving welfare
- Coastal ecosystems
- Pollution from sea cage aquaculture
- Freshwater ecosystems
- Genetic modification
- Fish diseases, parasites and vaccines
- Needs of the aquaculture sector in vaccines
- Development of new vaccines
- Recent vaccines development in aquaculture
- Economic gains
- Salinization/acidification of soils
- Plastic pollution
- Ecological benefits
- Prospects
- Global goals
- National laws, regulations, and management
- By country
- History
- Sources
- References
- Sources
- Free content work
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|300px|Aquaculture fish farming in the fjords south of Castro, Chile
Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. lotus). Aquaculture involves cultivating freshwater, brackish water, and saltwater populations under controlled or semi-natural conditions and can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is the harvesting of wild fish. Aquaculture is also a practice used for restoring and rehabilitating marine and freshwater ecosystems. Mariculture, commonly known as marine farming, is aquaculture in seawater habitats and lagoons, as opposed to freshwater aquaculture. Pisciculture is a type of aquaculture that consists of fish farming to obtain fish products as food.