mariculture
Sign in to saveAlso known as marine farming, marine aquaculture, ocean farming, sea farming, marine agronomy, sea agronomy, ocean agronomy
thumb|Salmon pens off Vestmanna in the [[Faroe Islands, an example of inshore mariculture]]
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- Types
- Onshore
- Inshore
- Open ocean
- Species
- Algae
- Shellfish
- Finfish
- Environmental effects
- Wastes from cage cultures
- Farm escapees and invasives
- Genetic pollution, disease, and parasite transfer
- Habitat modification
- Others
- Sustainability
- Benefits
- Technology and practices
- List of species farmed
- Scientific literature
- Notes
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Salmon pens off Vestmanna in the [[Faroe Islands, an example of inshore mariculture]]
Mariculture, sometimes called marine farming or marine aquaculture, is a branch of aquaculture involving the cultivation of marine organisms for food and other animal products, in seawater. Subsets of it include (offshore mariculture), fish farms built on littoral waters (inshore mariculture), or in artificial tanks, ponds or raceways which are filled with seawater (onshore mariculture). An example of the latter is the farming of plankton and seaweed, shellfish like shrimp or oysters, and marine finfish, in saltwater ponds. Non-food products produced by mariculture include fish meal, nutrient agar, jewellery (e.g. cultured pearls, and cosmetics.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “mariculture” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.