AGR 2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Brackish Water, Health Canada
19 Nov 2016
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The farming of aquatic organisms, including fish,molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Farming implies some form of intervention in the rearing process to enhance production, such as regular stocking, feeding, protection from predators, etc Farming also implies individual or corporate ownership of the stock being cultivated. Where does our fish & seafood come from: (istorically ourlakesandoceans, when we needed more, we just fished harder, longer, deeper or further away. Earth"s population reached 7. (cid:886) billion in (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:883)(cid:887) Went from hunting and gathering to farming in just a few decades. State of the world fisheries and aquaculture (fao) * average per capita consumption 19. 2 kilograms in 2013. * fish provides 20% of animal protein intake for 3 billion people. Supports livelihoods of 12 % of worlds population. We have over exhausted the ocean, hit a plateau. Nile tilapia translocated, now farm for human consumption.
