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  • From: paul@oneseedling.com
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Sustainable aquaculture needed for food security
  • Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:08:39 -0600

Aquaponics is just another form of aquaculture. The difference is size and
the fact that in aquaponics it is possible to grow your own fish food instead
of the environmentaly destructive method of using commercially manufactured
fish food which has been a major contributor of vast areas of ocean being
fished out. Offshore Chile is just one example.
Aquaculture as practiced in the US is just another form of Big Business
Agriculture.
Additionally as long as the Guberment allows China to dump their highly
subsidized fish and shrimp on the market American growers cannot raise either
fish or shrimp for what the Chinese sell fish retail for. There are of course
some exceptions to this but most are selling in a local market niche which is
where they should be selling. Local

Paul the Skeptic

On Jan 18, 2011, at 7:13 PM, "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:

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> Sustainable aquaculture needed for food security
> http://www.ecoseed.org/en/living-green/environment/article/51-environment/844-sustainable-aquaculture-needed-for-food-security
> Wednesday, March 04, 2009
>
> Aquaculture desperately needs to be put on a more sustainable basis, said
> the global environment organization, World Wildlife Fund, recently.
>
> The statement came after the release of the report, “State of the World’s
> Fisheries and Aquaculture 2008” (SOFIA 2008), which was released by the UN
> Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and which said that food supplies
> from aquaculture now equal those from ocean and fishwater capture
> fisheries. The report also notes a continuing drop in yields from the
> world’s marine capture fisheries.
>
> However, SOFIA 2008 also recorded a rise to 80% in the number of fisheries
> that are fully or over-exploited, adding yet more weight to predictions
> that collapsing fish stocks threaten food security.
>
> “The dramatic growth in aquaculture makes it more urgent to ensure
> aquaculture becomes sustainable and that supplying the stock and feed for
> fish farming becomes less of a burden on traditional fisheries,” said
> Miguel Jorge, Director of WWF’s Global Marine Programme.
>
> WWF is calling for fisheries to be managed in line with scientific advice,
> for more closed seasons and areas to allow stock to recover, for reductions
> in bycatch, and for an end to the subsidies that distort the relationship
> between fishing effort and fishing resource.
>
> - Katrice R. Jalbuena
>
> Source:
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> http://www.panda.org/?157763/Farmed-fish-and-shrimps-need-sustainability-boost
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