The lessons from intensive livestock development for aquaculture
Aquaculture production has some inherent biological advantages over land animal production in terms of efficiency. However, the difficulty of providing a truly controlled environment for aquaculture also brings some disadvantages. The developmental steps in conventional livestock production are being now recapitulated by the aquaculture industry but at a much faster rate. From the first step of simply producing enough food for the population, these include modernization(from backyard to farm-scale), the emergence of concern issues (e.g. biodiversity; environmental pollution), through to the growth of added-value products based on quality, convenience etc. The developments in modern poultry production are briefly considered, including key improvements in nutrition, genetics and breeding, health care and management. Lessons are drawn for future development in aquaculture production. Finally attention is paid to the big issues currently affecting the value chains for meat and aquaculture production.
Jonathan Shepherd
International Fishmeal and Fish Oil Organisation
国际会议
青岛
英文
247-257
2007-05-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）