World Aquaculture: Environmental Impacts and Troubleshooting Alternatives
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World Aquaculture: Environmental Impacts and Troubleshooting Alternatives
Aquaculture has been considered as an option to cope with the world food demand. However, criticisms have arisen around aquaculture, most of them related to the destruction of ecosystems such as mangrove forest to construct aquaculture farms, as well as the environmental impacts of the effluents on the receiving ecosystems. The inherent benefits of aquaculture such as massive food production an...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Scientific World Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1537-744X
DOI: 10.1100/2012/389623