Aquaculture

Michelle Fernandez SPE 3 Outline 10/28/2015 Professor Gail Venzen Introduction I. How does it make you feel to know the FDA is considering the approval of the first Genetically Engineered (GE) animal intended for human consumption? II. We need to stop the Food Drug Administration’s (FDA) pursuit in approving the human consumption of GE animals without extensive research being done on the effects of human nutrition. III. Primary concerns have been under researched and could

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population will reach nine billion by 2050, creating further demand for food (Raising More Fish to Meet Rising Demand, 2014). Fish farming, or aquaculture, is said to be the solution to meeting the growing global demand for fish as this sector is rapidly expanding comprehensively for the last thirty years (Australian Marine Conservation Society). Aquaculture is performing to become a successful method to satisfy the universal demand for seafood as it is environmentally friendly by preserving the ecosystem

Not So Fishy Fish Farms Fish farms and aquaculture in the US have come under scrutiny in the past decade because people are unsure of what they are eating. Fish farms fall under the large umbrella term of aquaculture. Dictionary.com defines aquaculture as “the cultivation of aquatic animals and plants, especially fish, shellfish, and seaweed, in natural or controlled marine or freshwater environments.” This practice has evolved over centuries and exploded in the 1970’s, becoming the number one producer

using various techniques dependent on the species, either fish, crustaceans, aquatic plants, and mollusks. Aquaculture involves the propagation, cultivation, and marketing of these aquatic stocks (Swann 1992) and can also include ownership, individual or corporate, of production stocks (Goldburg et al. 2001). Within the aquaculture industry there are several categories of aquaculture facilities including but not limited to concrete ponds, trays and longlines (Goldburg et al. 2001), tank

Atlantic Aquaculture, Inc. Capital Budgeting with Staged Entry Question 1 A – Even though Atlantic Aquaculture already bought the land needed for 300,000 USD, its value today is 900,000 USD. We can therefore conclude the 900,000 USD is an opportunity cost as the land can be sold at this value. B – In this case it is best for the company to use the option to the land acquisition. By calculating the NPV the option is worth $-852,093.66. Buying the land without the option would bring the company

meal, fish meal and soybean meal without amino acid supplementation in Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus diets A. Suloma • O. M. El-Husseiny • M. I. Hassane • R. S. Mabroke • E. R. El-Haroun Received: 11 October 2013 / Accepted: 15 January 2014  Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 Abstract The purpose of this study was to evaluate hydrolyzed feather meal (HFM) as a substitute for fish meal (FM) or soybean meal (SBM) in Nile tilapia fry diets. Triplicate groups of fish (initial body

Research Paper The Environmental Impact of Fisheries and Fish Farming on a Global Scale On our Oceanography class trip to La Jolla, California, we spent a day on the Ocean Institute boat running tests and observing sea life. To collect a sample of the different fish in the area we dragged a large net in the water, which the volunteers said they don’t do often because it is destructive to the environment. I found it interesting that catching fish in this way could be harmful not only to the fish

save water. Chelsey D. Hillyer in her article, “Is aquaponics the agriculture of the future?” exhibits her knowledge on how aquaponics would be used in a mass production type of way. She describes how if local farmers were to try to get into the aquaculture is too difficult to get into. She claims that, “China and Taiwan dominate the U.S. import market for fish, accounting for almost 100% of all shipments of whole fish in 2006.” With this sort of statistic, local farmers would have a very little to

“How to Farm a Better Fish” by Joel K. Bourne, Jr. was published in National Geographic’s June, 2014 edition magazine. This particular article characterizes the differences between the various types of aquaculture, as well as what species to feed and the ingredients that make up the food given. The reporter who composed this editorial informed the reader of the advantages and downfalls of an indoor fish tank vs. an outdoor fish pen. The reporter pointed out the numerous ways an aquacultural company