Challenges posed by climate change in the future scenario of coastal aquacultureud -Winter School onudImpact of Climate Change on Indian Marine Fisheries held at CMFRI, Cochin 18.1.2008 to 7.2.2008

摘要

Aquaculture is considered as a sunrise sector for increasing fish production since the capture fisheriesudhave reached almost stagnation levels. With more than 8% annual growth globally, the sector is nowudconsidered as the fastest growing food producing sector in the world. Today aquaculture provides aroundudhalf of the fish for human consumption and this share will need to grow further. The global aquacultureudproduction showed that 25.8 million tonnes (m t) of freshwater organisms were produced (43.8%), 30.2 mudt (50.9%) of marine organisms, and 3.4 m t of brackishwater organisms comprising nearly 63% shrimpsud(FAO, 2006).