Although aquaculture is mainly used for food production, it serves many other purposes as well. Aquaculture can be used to help humans by giving us a constant source of seafood,such as salmon, trout, and oysters, while also helping to restock populations and restore fish habitats. Aquaculture also helps the United States save money as well as to help regulate the production of seafood. Overall the use of Aquaculture is much more beneficial and useful to use than it is environmentally destructive. An article titled “Fish Farming is Environmentally Destructive” written by Emma Duncan, says that aquaculture is damaging to many ecosystems. According to Duncan, when these aquaculture farms take the fish meal needed to feed the fish on these farms,
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Americans consume 4.8 billion pounds of seafood every year, and according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, nearly seventy-five percent of the catfish and trout that we consume in the United States comes from a fish farm, and fifty percent of all seafood produced for human consumption is produced on these fish farms, and that number is continuing to rise. Many of these fish farms start the fish out in tanks in a hatchery. These fish will stay in the hatchery and are cared for until they are large enough to be moved to a fish farm or released into the wild as part of a stock enhancement program. Since these fish farms are getting a steady amount of fish from hatcheries, they are able to provide a constant supply of seafood. William T. Hogarth as the director of the National Marine Fisheries Service states that “ Because wild harvests can no longer keep up with growing demand, increases in the seafood supply will come from aquaculture.” He believes that these fish farms are the only answer to keeping up with the growing demand for fish in the United …show more content…
These are also very strict times that these drugs can be given to the fish to ensure that they would not still be in the fish by the time it gets to the store where the customer would buy it. The few drugs they do allow to be given to the fish are managed very closely for safety and effectiveness, and no drug is approved to be used in aquaculture in the United States until is has been thoroughly tested to ensure that it will not harm the person who will eat the fish, and that the drug will not somehow damage the fish’s environment. Drugs are not the only thing managed on these fish farms though. Many different organizations have different roles to manage and run these farms.
There are many laws put in place by the United States government to regulate the processing and harvesting of seafood that is meant for human consumption. There are many different agencies that are responsible for making sure these fish farms are following all the rules and regulations, such as the Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency (Food and Agricultural
Americans consume 4.8 billion pounds of seafood every year, and according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, nearly seventy-five percent of the catfish and trout that we consume in the United States comes from a fish farm, and fifty percent of all seafood produced for human consumption is produced on these fish farms, and that number is continuing to rise. Many of these fish farms start the fish out in tanks in a hatchery. These fish will stay in the hatchery and are cared for until they are large enough to be moved to a fish farm or released into the wild as part of a stock enhancement program. Since these fish farms are getting a steady amount of fish from hatcheries, they are able to provide a constant supply of seafood. William T. Hogarth as the director of the National Marine Fisheries Service states that “ Because wild harvests can no longer keep up with growing demand, increases in the seafood supply will come from aquaculture.” He believes that these fish farms are the only answer to keeping up with the growing demand for fish in the United …show more content…
These are also very strict times that these drugs can be given to the fish to ensure that they would not still be in the fish by the time it gets to the store where the customer would buy it. The few drugs they do allow to be given to the fish are managed very closely for safety and effectiveness, and no drug is approved to be used in aquaculture in the United States until is has been thoroughly tested to ensure that it will not harm the person who will eat the fish, and that the drug will not somehow damage the fish’s environment. Drugs are not the only thing managed on these fish farms though. Many different organizations have different roles to manage and run these farms.
There are many laws put in place by the United States government to regulate the processing and harvesting of seafood that is meant for human consumption. There are many different agencies that are responsible for making sure these fish farms are following all the rules and regulations, such as the Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency (Food and Agricultural