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aquaculture

the manipulation of the reproduction, growth rates and mortality of aquatic organisms useful to mankind, to enhance their yield; the aquatic equivalent of AGRICULTURE.
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The main challenge to the growth of aquafarming in the UAE is the lack of a supply of juveniles, or fingerlings.
Aquaculture could ease UAE fish shortage
The pipe is being used by the Norwegian Akva Group, a prominent company involved in aquafarming, which uses circular fish cages in the Norwegian Fjords ranging in diameters from 13 to 64 metres consisting of two concentric rings of HDPE pipe welded watertight and kept in position by brackets.
Nothing fishy about HDPE pipe brackets
The majors at the fishermen rehabilitation institutes in Al Khabourah and Salalah include aquafarming, fish development, ship construction and repair, navigation technologies, fishing equipment, fish engineering and marine mechanics.
Development of Vocational Education System in Sultanate/ Press Conference
"Aquafarming in Urban and Peri-urban Zones in Sub-Saharan Africa." Presentation at the 7th Biannual Conference of the Aquaculture Association of southern Africa, Grahamstown, pp: 12-14.
The sustainable marine aquaculture
In aquaculture and aquafarming industries, Chloramine-T is used to treat external bacterial infections in salmonid fish such as koi, salmon, trout, and white.
Iofina Chemical Appoints Viachem as Exclusive Chloramine-T Marketer
Does cultivating freshwater and saltwater fish populations under controlled conditions instead of harvesting wild fish make practices of aquaculture or aquafarming part of the solution to the decline of global wild fisheries?
Nathan Young and Ralph Matthews, The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada: Activism, Policy, and Contested Science
"Due to the feedlot conditions of aquafarming, farm-raised fish are doused with antibiotics and exposed to more concentrated pesticides than their wild kin," says Mateljan.
Losing plants and farming fish
For example, The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT), Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (CIFRI), Central Institute of Brackish Water Aquaculture (CIBA), and Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA), all under the Government of India have developed certain technologies for fishing, aquafarming, and product development.
The black clam, Villorita cyprinoides, fishery in the State of Kerala, India
When the fishermen finally discovered aquafarming they called in the medical practice consultants to explain limited provider panels and gatekeepers.
Is technology displacing the art of medicine?

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