When my office telephone rings, it can often be one of two things: Someone looking for help to solve a problem. As in, “Can you help me fix this?” or “I want to start raising fish, but don’t know how;” or … It can be someone with investment money looking to diversify into fish production. …
Category Archive: Aquaculture Perspectives
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Integrated aquaculture: The sustainable and profitable path forward to grow our industry and feed the need for more fish
by Bill Manci We are all concerned about the current status and future of our environment. I consider myself a fervent environmentalist. While I have always considered aquaculture our best alternative to capture fisheries and a way to preserve those capture fisheries, some prefer to focus on aquaculture’s negatives, and have tried to paint aquaculture …
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As US seafood trade deficit continues to rise NIMBY attitudes, regulations have to change
by Bill Manci It is not often that I invoke the name of a colleague in my column. But I am compelled to mention someone who, for the past several years, has inspired me through his relentless efforts to right a wrong. Like many of us still do, I used to think that the US …
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Globalization could benefit US farmers
Aquaculture Perspectives – As the rest of the world “catches up,” US aquaculture will flourish Back in 2004, I wrote a column about outsourcing and the fact that more and more of our fish were coming from overseas. Our economy was relatively strong at the time and the high value of the US dollar meant …
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Finally, good news about aquaculture’s environmental impacts
Industry receives good news about its environmental impacts AQUACULTURE PERSPECTIVES by Bill Manci I received some very good news recently. This was news that really did not surprise me, frankly, but was the sort of news that provided a sense of satisfaction that I have sought for a long time. Those of us in …
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Romantic notion of eating wild fish must end
AQUACULTURE PERSPECTIVES by Bill Manci I read the recent article in Time magazine (July 18, 2011) by Bryan Walsh about aquaculture and its relationship to human nutrition and wild fish populations. Aquaculture was, AGAIN, inaccurately painted in an awkward light – as sort of a necessary evil. The author waxed poetic about people setting out …
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Globalization a boon to US industry?
AQUACULTURE PERSPECTIVES BY BILL MANCI Predictions do come true, aquaculture can come to the rescue Just about a year ago, I wrote a column about US aquaculture’s current state of affairs. The nation was running a huge trade deficit in seafood, and we still do. But some important shifts have occurred over the past twelve …
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Wild fish face an uncertain future; worsening pollution by plastics may be the only certainty
AQUACULTURE PERSPECTIVES BY BILL MANCI I watched with great interest as David Pogue, a frequent contributor to CBS’s Sunday Morning program, presented a story recently about plastics in the oceans – specifically the Pacific Ocean and an area called the North Pacific Gyre which stretches from Asia to North America. Actually, there are five similar …
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