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 as antithetical to an environmentally sensitive and sustainable approach to the production of human food.

Long-time readers of my column understand very clearly my view of aquaculture and its pros and cons.

Read the rest and much, much more in Issue 6, 2012 of Fish Farming News.  Download now for immediate access and keep the .pdf for future reference.