Aquaculture, also known as aquafarming, is the farming of fish, crustaceans, molluscs, aquatic plants, algae, and other organisms.
Aquaculture may consist of fish farms or algae farms.
Aquaculture creates the following pressures on the ecosystem:
Photo credits: "Aquaculture - Coastal net pens off the coast of Maine". NOAA's National Ocean Service (2011). Licence: CC BY 2.0. Not changed. Retrieved from flickr.com on 2022-10-03.
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The layer was implemented in the MSP Challenge as provided by the project partner (CNR-ISMAR).
This layer is not present in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
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