page_title: Turtle farming
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Turtle farming / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: "View of A Turtle Farm, Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan". Founded in 1866 by Mr. Hattori, this may have been the world's first turtle farm. The species raised was the Chinise soft-shelled turtle Pelodiscus sinensis.
context_page_description: Turtle farming is the practice of raising turtles and tortoises of various species commercially. Raised animals are sold for use as gourmet food, traditional medicine ingredients, or as pets. Some farms also sell young animals to other farms, either as breeding stock, or more commonly to be raised there to a larger size for subsequent resale.
  Turtle farms primarily raise freshwater turtles; therefore, turtle farming is usually classified as aquaculture. However, some terrestrial tortoises are also raised on farms for the pet trade.
  Only three serious attempts are believed to have been made to farm sea turtles.
  Only one of them, in Cayman Islands, continues to operate.
  The one in Australia's Torres Strait Islands folded after a few years of operation, and the one in Réunion has been converted to a public aquarium.
caption: Hattori's farm in Fukagawa, likely the world's first industrial-scale turtle farm, about 1905
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