Talk:Aquaculture
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[edit] This article does not appear to be entirely neutral.
"The total area occupied by Canadian salmon farms in British Columbia and the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick is about 8,900 acreas which is less than 0.01% of the coastal area where these sites are located." This quotation majorly underscores some of the fundamental underlying problems behind aquaculture. Granted, the farms themselves may be small in size, but their effects can be great.
"Wild Pacific and Atlantic salmon stocks have seen significant declines over the last several decades, before salmon farming operations started." This quotation suggests that aquaculture has fixed any issues of a declining fishery. This is not true, and this kind of inneuendo should not be found in a neutral article.
--INDEED, Aquaculture like any technology is a mixed blessing, it has caused as many problems as it has solved. Look below, and take the time to read the article by Kinsey.
While the article does explain some of the major problems with aquacultures in the final paragraph, it does little justice to the major problems facing the aquaculture industry. Escaped fish and water pollution are but some of the few problems that plague the industry; consequently, these problems deserve to be explored further within the Wiki.
However, if the Wiki does go into more detail about the industry problems, it could force the discussion to look at the original scientific literature and would expose some of this literature as being anti-aquaculture "advocacy science". There are a lot of broad claims of problems that seem to evaporate on closer examination. 72.67.40.148 03:05, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
I have tried to clean up the critisms section. I can't provide any extra links at the moment but many of these have been previously reported on British TV, with proof. eg. they filmed 'dead areas' underneath the fish pens, salmon caught in the deep sea with serious parasite infection ( caught when they passed by the fish farms ) etcDavid J James 6 September 2006
[edit] question for aquaculturalists
What do you call a female fish filled with roe (or, how do you describe such a condition)? She isn't pregnant, since the eggs have not yet been impregnated ... Could someone answer on my talk page? Thanks, Slrubenstein | Talk 23:07, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Cross posted to User_talk:Slrubenstein
Re:question for aquaculturalists
Hi there, I just stumbled across your question on talk:fish farming and talk:aquaculture. When full of eggs, female salmon are gravid. I don't know if anyone beat me to it, and if it's still any use to you now, but thought I'd leave you a note. Anilocra 21:37, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
Question on names...
It seems like names of fish are often changed for marketing purposes, but I have a problem with the liberal use of "catfish" by many different fish. One in particular is basa from Vietnam. As I understand it, the two fish are not closely related. In the classification system used by scientists, U. S. farm-raised catfish differ from basa to the same degree as house cats differ from beef cattle within the grouping of mammals. It seems like they are simply trying to capitalize on the name with an imposter fish. I know in the U.S., the government had to ban use of the name "catfish" for basa and tra from Vietnam because of the confusion it caused among consumers. I don't mind renaming a fish for marketing purposes when it is a new name, but when you are calling one fish another fish that people are familiar with, I do have a problem.
External links
The last external link seems to be a purely commercial link. Is this sort of link allowable, I know this link has been removed before! Como006 14:17, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Open-Ocean Aquaculture
I am hoping that someone could start a section on Open-Ocean Aquaculture (OOA). It has been called the future of fish farming. It consists of a large floating cage that is anchored in the open ocean. Jotogo 14:20, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
OCA is currently used to fatten up Tuna that are caught too young to sell in the eastern Mediterrean. IMHO if you cannot catch old enough Tuna to sell you are overfishing. In any case it does not remove one of the major problems : you are still feeding the farmed fish on caught wild fish. David J.James 6 September 2006.
[edit] More Technical Information
I am interested in learning more of the technical aspects of aquaculture, less so the political, environmental or historical aspects. It would be great if someone knowledgeable in this field could expand on what is actually involved in farm raising fish.
[edit] This is a really important subject that has been poorly done here.
You might start by reading Darin Kinsey's "'Seeding the Water as the Earth': Epicenter and Peripheries of an Aquacultural Revolution" in Environmental History (July, 2006)which gives a good overview of the history of aquaculture.
- I've got a copy of "Seafarm: The Story of Aquaculture," and am considering doing a long paper on legal issues involving aquaculture, so I will probably work on this article soon. From what I understand so far, this is a technology that has existed in some form for many centuries and can/should become a major industry for the West, but which faces regulatory hurdles. --Kris Schnee 17:53, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
