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- Helping to rebuild crashed populations (using open cage aquaculture)
- Providing more food for carnivorous fish (farming prey fish so that others have enough food to eat)
- With the new regulations that are proposed, aquaculture can be used to make up for any lost revenue (especially with Tilalpia, Alaskan Salmon, Catfish, Shrimp and Mollusks)
- For overfished populations, aquaculture can help to rebuild the population by either 1) allowing young fish to be released into the wild; or 2) using aquaculture as the only source of the certain fish and prohibiting fishing of the wild fish, so that the population may regrow to a sustainable level.
A few things to consider:
- Aquaculture is already economically viable.
- So far as we can tell, it is the only truly scalable solution as demand grows in the future.
- If predatory fish are farmed, a sufficient number of prey fish will also have to be farmed
- Aquaculture can also be integrated into water treatment (aka multitrophic aquaculture) and thus reduce costs overall
In the end, the solution for aquaculture largely depends on the type of solutions put forth by everyone else. Once we have decided how much the above solutions will affect the fish trade, we can determine on a larger scale how much aquaculture we will need in our final solution. For further information, please see our the Team 1 Wiki or contact any of the members of our team.