Land Use in Shrimp Aquaculture

摘要

Aquaculture has been practiced for at least two millennia (Stickney 2000) but only recently did it become a significant sector of world seafood production. Most shrimp and fish aquaculture is conducted in ponds and construction of ponds involves landuse conversion. Ponds require a water source and often are constructed on the flat land of floodplains near streams or estuaries. Ponds also may be sited in lower areas of watersheds and filled by storm runoff (Yoo and Boyd 1994). Land for ponds usuallywas formerly in agriculture or was undeveloped natural land that frequently included wetlands (Boyd and McNevin 2015).