### booming industry:

Aquaculture
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* also implies some form of private property ownership over the species being cultured
  - includes the production of freshwater and marine pearls
  - limits wild fish populations because it uses their habitat
  - shows a trend towards the use of technology
* are cultivation.
* based on spawning in captivity is present, but rather limited.
* booming industry.
* boosts urchin roe production.
* can also help revive a Canadian way of life.
* can be a clean form of economic development
  - more than just fish farming
  - both provide alternatives and help meet current demands for marine products
  - harm the environment
  - take place in water that is still or in running water, fresh or salt
* competes with agriculture for land, water, and feed.
* continues to be one of Australia s fastest-growing primary industries.
* dates back well into history.
* fast emerging domestic industry responding to the expanding demand for seafood
  - growing industry in the State
* form of agriculture.
* has an important role in fisheries.
* includes catfish farming, baitfish farming and exotic fish raising
  - research on the development of individual organisms and their environment
  - restocking the ocean through fingerling programs or open ocean mariculture
  - shrimp, fish, and shellfish, but also microalgae
  - the cultivation of food and ornamental plants and animals
* involves the managed growth of aquatic animals under controlled conditions.
* is an altermative solution to meet the public's needs
  - established and viable commercial agricultural practice in many states
  - expanding source of food
  - industry that is forever changing and improving
  - another term for farming fish
  - being the controlled cultivation of aquatic plants and animals
  - big business in Florida, raising both fish and aquatic plants
  - contemplated as an alternative to conventional fishing
  - dependent on the availability of suitable sites and infrastructure for development
  - divided into a number of specialties, some of which overlap
  - fish farming, agriculture's fastest growing area
  - included in the integrated farming system approach, the VAC system
  - increasingly important in meeting consumer demands for edible fish
  - more than just raising fish, though
  - of growing importance worldwide
  - often the cause of even more disruption to the environment
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  - of Australia's fastest growing primary industries
* is one of the fastest growing areas of agriculture
  - food production activities in the world
  - forms of animal agriculture
  - industries in the United States
  - sectors of food production
  - segments of agriculture in the United States
  - fastest-growing food production activities in the world
  - high potential development areas for low-temperature geothermal resources
  - way to supplement the wild harvest
  - particularly important to Temperate Asia
* is recognized as an important way to meet future demands
  - one of the most efficient methods of food production
  - worldwide as fish and aquatic plant farming
  - regarded as one possible solution to the world's food supply problems
* is seen as a critical component in the diversification of the Vancouver Island economy
  - major element in the expansion of the Kingdom's fishing industry
  - still a developing industry
* is the aquatic counterpart of agriculture, with water substituting for land
  - business of farming aquatic plants and animals
  - controlled cultivation and harvest of aquatic animals and plants
  - cultivation of aquatic animals or plants in a managed environment
* is the farming of fish under environmentally controlled conditions
  - fish, shellfish and aquatic plants in fresh, brackish or salt water
  - marine and freshwater species in captivity
  - fastest growing form of agriculture in the United States
* is the fastest growing segment of American agriculture
  - the U.S. agriculture
  - fastest-growing segment of the U.S. agricultural economy
* is the practice of raising fish or shellfish
  - food in water
  - production of aquatic species -vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants
* is the rearing of aquatic organisms under controlled conditions
  - under controlled or semi-controlled conditions
  - wave of the future
  - world s fastest growing food production system
  - thought to have huge potential, with big plans for both shrimp and tilapia
  - used to increase productivity
* major growth industry.
* now produces one-quarter of the seafood consumed worldwide.
* often uses feed derived from fish caught specifically for fish-meal production.
* prime source for quality seafood and growing industry.
* produces tuna, mussels, oysters, trout.
* promises to be the primary means of increasing fish production.
* provides opportunities for many small businesses.
* puts birds at risk, too.
* refers to the farming or production of aquatic organisms, both plant and animal.
* relatively young agricultural industry.
* remains a new frontier, particularly in the tropics where fish grow fastest.
* shares the shorelines with beaches.
* unique industry based on new technologies.
* wide open area.