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    Mariculture: Prepared By: Acel C. Patulot

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    Mariculture is the farming of aquatic plants and animals in salt water environments. It involves growing seaweeds, mollusks, crustaceans, and finfish. Mariculture production has grown globally from 9 million tonnes in 1990 to over 23 million tonnes in 1999, driven by increased production of select species. Mariculture provides a more efficient source of food than terrestrial animal farming, requiring less feed inputs to produce protein.

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    Mariculture: Prepared By: Acel C. Patulot

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    Mariculture is the farming of aquatic plants and animals in salt water environments. It involves growing seaweeds, mollusks, crustaceans, and finfish. Mariculture production has grown globally from 9 million tonnes in 1990 to over 23 million tonnes in 1999, driven by increased production of select species. Mariculture provides a more efficient source of food than terrestrial animal farming, requiring less feed inputs to produce protein.

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    Mariculture is the farming of aquatic plants and animals in salt water environments. It involves growing seaweeds, mollusks, crustaceans, and finfish. Mariculture production has grown globally from 9 million tonnes in 1990 to over 23 million tonnes in 1999, driven by increased production of select species. Mariculture provides a more efficient source of food than terrestrial animal farming, requiring less feed inputs to produce protein.

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    Mariculture: Prepared By: Acel C. Patulot

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    Mariculture is the farming of aquatic plants and animals in salt water environments. It involves growing seaweeds, mollusks, crustaceans, and finfish. Mariculture production has grown globally from 9 million tonnes in 1990 to over 23 million tonnes in 1999, driven by increased production of select species. Mariculture provides a more efficient source of food than terrestrial animal farming, requiring less feed inputs to produce protein.

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    MARICULTURE

    Prepared by: Acel C. Patulot


    Mariculture- is the farming of aquatic plants and
    animals in salt water. Thus, mariculture
    represents a subset of the larger field of
    aquaculture, which involves the farming of both
    fresh-water and marine organisms. The major
    categories of mariculture species are seaweeds,
    mollusks, crustaceans, and finfish.
    MARICULTURE
    • The farming husbandry of marine plants
    animals in brackish water/marine environments.
    • Output is growing globally, its practices have
    important implications for marine coastal
    biodiversity on the level of genes, species
    ecosystems.
    • Increased from 9M tonnes in 1990 to gt 23M tonnes
    in 1999.
    • Increase is a result of higher production of a
    few spp.
    • CBD Technical Series 12 Solutions for
    Sustainable Mariculture Avoiding the Adverse
    Effects of Mariculture on Biological Diversity
    2004.
    MARICULTURE
    • Provides good quality food
    • More efficient than many other forms of food
    production farms.
    • Humans consume lt 1 of terrestrial 1o organic
    matter production
    • (which totals 132B tons, lt 0.02 of the 82
    billion tons of 1o production of the oceans)
    • Fish can replace terrestrial animals at ½ the
    level of feed inputs.
    • In other words, 100 kilos of feed can produce 30
    kilos of fish or 15 kilos of pork
    MARICULTURE
    • Hence, mariculture is a more efficient user of
    primary productivity than the farming of
    livestock.
    • Brackish water aquaculture production is
    dominated y shrimp but also includes finfish
    molluscs.
    • Marine aquaculture is dominated by seaweed
    (Japanese kelp), and molluscs, Pacific cupped
    oyster and salmon
    Top mariculture species in 2000

    M marine B - brackish waterTop mariculture


    species in 2000

    M marine B - brackish water

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