Aquaculture
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Layer Info
Category Activities
Sub-category Aquaculture

Description

Aquaculture, also known as aquafarming, is the farming of fish, crustaceans, molluscs, aquatic plants, algae, and other organisms.

MSP Challenge

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.Return to aquaculture.

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Types

  • Shellfish farms
  • Mussels and fish farms
  • Mariculture
  • Harvesting in natural sites
  • Fish farm
  • Classified production area
  • Breeding area

Metadata

Data Source

Adapted from Emodnet human activities

Original Title

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Description

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Creation Date

Not available. Provided on 2020-10-09.

Methodology

The layer was implemented in the MSP Challenge as provided by the project partner (CNR-ISMAR).


This page was last edited on 3 October 2022, at 09:39. Content is available under GPLv3 unless otherwise noted.