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aquaculture cultivation and harvesting of plants and animals in water. Called also mariculture. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Aquaculture of salmon constitutes a rapidly growing worldwide industry with an expanding globalized market (1,2). To help ensure the security of this food source, government officials meeting at the August 2005 Secretariat of the Economic Community of West African States endorsed the Abuja Declaration on Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture in Africa. We wanted to see if it was possible to farm fish and shellfish offshore, in an extreme environment like the Gulf of Maine," says Richard Langan, director of the University of New Hampshire's Open Ocean Aquaculture project, which is also raising halibut, mussels and sea scallops in sunken cages. |
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