
Aquaculture
What is aquaculture?
Aquaculture: main concepts and definitions
Aquaculture: Breeding of aquatic organisms, including fish, mollusks, crustaceans, and plants.
For example: concentrating fish populations, feeding them, or protecting them from predators. It involves ownership of the fish stocks that are being farmed and human intervention.
Aquaculture varies greatly depending on where it is carried out, from freshwater fish farming to shrimp farming in saltwater ponds.
However, most aquaculture is carried out for the production of low-consumption freshwater fish species in the food chain, such as tilapia or carp.
Fishing: obtaining three types of aquatic species: fish, crustaceans, and mollusks.
Food security: material and economic access for all members of the population at all times to sufficient safe and nutritious food.
Sustainable development: It is the management and conservation of natural resources, such as fish populations, in such a way that human needs are satisfied.
In the agricultural, forestry, and fishing sectors, sustainable development aims to conserve land and water without degrading the environment.
