Aquaculture covers a wide range of farming methods, each with its own environmental impact. Exploring the differences in both farming helps why sustainable practices matter for healthy oceans and resilient food systems. #WDanielCoxIII #Aquaculture #Sustainability #DataMatters
"You know, some people have a negative connotation, maybe aquaculture, because there were bad actors. For example, in fin fish, as you know, there's a lot of talk about don't eat farmed salmon because rightfully so, the bad actors ended up having sea lice and, you know, all the not sustainable practices that has happened in the fin fish. So in our case, which is a shellfish, there's a lot of things that we've done to avoid all the bad practices that happen in the fin fish industry. For example, I'm going to go a little bit technical here, what's called extensive versus intensive culture, meaning you don't put a lot of animals in a, let's just say five square meter of part of the ocean, just because the density is very important in terms of producing these animals. When you're farming, one of the things that these animals do is if you ended up planting them at very near distances, then they can't grow to their full potential. And then that also affects their market size in which in my industry, market likes two pound animals. So you can't sell your product profitably in the market end of things."
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Aquaculture covers a wide range of farming methods, each with its own environmental impact. Exploring the differences in both farming helps why sustainable practices matter for healthy oceans and resilient food systems. #WDanielCoxIII #Aquaculture #Sustainability #DataMatters