Farming in water: the controlled raising of fish, crustaceans, mollusks and algae, husbandry's youngest large branch and its fastest-growing one. In 2022 farmed production passed wild capture for the first time, and by 2024 aquaculture supplied 103 million tonnes of aquatic animals, more than half of world output and nearly six tenths of what people actually eat from the water. The domestication story every land chapter of this atlas tells is happening in ponds and pens now, within living memory. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Central QuestionHow can aquatic animals and plants be raised at scale without exhausting the waters, feeds and wild stocks the farming itself depends on? 1 Aquaculture
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Food Security, Concepts Farmed fish and shellfish are among the fastest-growing sources of protein counted toward global food security.
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Aquaculture is the controlled cultivation of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value.
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Extensive aquaculture relies on small or no external inputs of labour and feed, compared to what is being produced, and is the oldest, most likely originating in China around 4000 years ago.
Algaculture (Wikipedia)
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Algaculture is a form of aquaculture involving the farming of species of algae.
Wikipedia: Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted
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Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted (born 1949) is a specialist in nutrition-sensitive approaches to aquatic food systems.
Modadugu Vijay Gupta (Wikipedia)
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He was awarded the World Food Prize in 2005, for development and dissemination of low-cost techniques for freshwater fish farming (using tilapia species) by the rural poor.
Wikipedia: Bren Smith
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Bren Smith is an aquaculture professional and former commercial fisherman, best known for pioneering regenerative ocean farming and co-founding the non-profit GreenWave.
Liao I-chiu - Wikipedia
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Nov. 4, 1936) is a Taiwanese academic who specializes in commercial aquatic animal breeding and aquaculture.
Wikipedia: Vishwa Gopal Jhingran
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Vishwa Gopal Jhingran (1919-1991) was an Indian zoologist and aquaculture scientist, known for the introduction of a composite fish culture technique by name, aquaplosion.
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