Farming for the Future: Exploring the Potential of Aquaculture as Wildlife Farming

摘要

Aquaculture can have both positive and negative impacts on wild populations. It can reduce pressure on overexploited wild stocks and boost depleted stocks. However, negative ecological impacts are numerous (e.g., eutrophication due to effluents and excess feeds, transmission of diseases and proliferation of invasive species), with the harvest of wild fish for production of fishmeal being of particular concern. The commercial domestication and breeding of wildlife for trade hasbeen of increasing interest to aquaculturists and conservation biologists because of its potential to decrease pressures on wild populations. This is called wildlife farming.