Greater importance of freshwater aquaculture in global fish supply

Aquaculture and aquaculture have made great contributions in ensuring global food security, providing essential nutritional support for human beings, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from global food production, making them a research hotspot in the current international academic community

Importance of freshwater aquaculture is underestimated

The study argues that marine aquaculture has received excessive attention on the global aquaculture policy agenda, while the importance and potential of freshwater aquaculture has been ignored by the international mainstream academic community

In terms of edible production, freshwater aquaculture contributes 77% of the global aquaculture production

The international academic community generally believes that the development of freshwater aquaculture will be limited by resources such as freshwater and land, while the expansion space of marine aquaculture is almost unlimited

Freshwater aquaculture contributes more to global food security

The study suggests that freshwater aquaculture contributes more to global food security because of its advantages over marine aquaculture in large-scale production of low-input, affordable aquatic products

When talking about the future development trend of global aquaculture, Dr.

(Source: China Fisheries News)

"China Food News" (06 edition on March 15, 2022)

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