An aquaculture feasibility study compared growth rates of sturgeon raised in spring-fed tanks with those raised in recirculation tanks. I'm Kevin Pierce with the Florida Environment. Aquaculture is big business in Florida, raising both fish and aquatic plants. The only difference is that we are culturing organisms in the water instead of land. In Florida, the most distinct and most valuable of the crops is the actual tropical fish or aquarium fish like the Guppies or Swordtails that many children have in their homes.
Clams are very big in Florida.
They have been a recent boom during the last five years. And of course then the traditional Catfish in the Panhandle of Florida. With help from its Environmental Studies Program, we're produced at the Whitaker Center at Florida Gulf Coast University and funded by the Southwest Florida Council for Environment Education. I'm Kevin Pierce with the Florida Environment. In a time when there's great concern about what's being dumped in our water or our soil, some are pointing to aquaculture as a cleaner farming solution.