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Aquaculture
Recent Publications
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Nature's Subsidies to Shrimp and Salmon Farming
October 1998
Although many fisheries stocks have declined precipitously throughout the world, fish farming--and especially shrimp and salmon farming--has boomed.
Aquaculture -A Gateway for Exotic Species
November 2001
Aquaculture is a fast-growing segment of the world food economy and a leading vector of aquatic invasive species in the United States and abroad.
Effects of Aquaculture on World Fish Supplies
June 2000
Global production of farmed fish and shellfish has more than doubled in the past 15 years.
Marine Aquaculture in the United States: Environmental impacts and policy options
December 2001
Global aquaculture production is growing rapidly, with production more than doubling in weight and by value from 1989 to 1998.
Salmon Aquaculture in the Pacific Northwest: A Global Industry
October 2003
Many locals in British Columbia's Broughton Archipelago welcomed the salmon-farming industry in the early 1980s. It promised jobs, more schools, and higher incomes.
Why Farm Salmon Outcompete Fishery Salmon
December 2003
Over the past quarter century, the salmon aquaculture industry has grown rapidly.
Future seascapes, fishing, and fish farming
February 2005
The depletion of many marine fisheries has created a new impetus to expand seafood production through fish farming, or aquaculture.
Offshore Aquaculture Legislation
September 2006
In an editiorial printed in Science magazine, aquaculture specialist Rosamond Naylor comments on the impact of the newly introduced National Offshore Aquaculture bill which establishes a permitting...
Aquaculture and Ocean Resources: Raising Tigers of the Sea
December 2005
With continued human pressure on marine fisheries and ocean resources, aquaculture has become one of the most promising avenues for increasing marine fish production in the future.
Feeding Aquaculture in an Era of Finite Resources
September 2009
Aquaculture’s pressure on forage fisheries remains hotly contested.
Numerical Modeling of Aquaculture Dissolved Waste Transport in a Coastal Embayment
February 2011
Marine aquaculture is expanding rapidly without reliable quantification of effluents.
Seeds of Sustainability: Lessons from the Birthplace of the Green Revolution
November 2011
Seeds of Sustainability is a groundbreaking analysis of agricultural development and transitions toward more sustainable management in one region.
Searching for Solutions in Aquaculture: Charting a sustainable course
October 2012
Aquaculture is currently the fastest growing animal food production sector and will soon supply more than half of the world’s seafood for human consumption.
Feed and fishmeal use in the production of carp and tilapia in China
November 2013
China dominates the global aquaculture industry, most clearly with its massive production and consumption of low trophic-level carp species and its rapidly rising output and exports of tilapia....
Does Aquaculture Add Resilience to the Global Food System?
September 2014
Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector and continues to expand alongside terrestrial crop and livestock production.
Opportunity for marine fisheries reform in China
January 2017
China’s 13th Five-Year Plan, launched in March 2016, provides a sound policy platform for the protection of marine ecosystems and the restoration of capture fisheries within China’s exclusive...
Feed conversion efficiency in aquaculture: do we measure it correctly?
February 2018
Globally, demand for food animal products is rising.
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Rosamond L. Naylor Senior Fellow William Wrigley Professor of Earth System Science, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Professor, by courtesy, Economics, Senior Fellow and Founding Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment 
