The Rise of Environmental Issues from Asia's Booming Fish Farms
Asia leads the world in aquaculture production but intensive farming has led to an array of environmental challenges that could ultimately pose a risk to human health.
Asia leads the world in aquaculture production but intensive farming has led to an array of environmental challenges that could ultimately pose a risk to human health.
“If we continue to burn fossil fuels at our current rate, the amount of seafood such as fish or mussels able to be farmed sustainably will increase by only eight percent by 2050 and decline by 16 percent by 2090.”
Global fish consumption is predicted to increase by 20 percent from 2016 to 2030 because of population growth, the expansion of the middle class, and greater urbanization (seafood becomes easily accessible for people, supported by the availability of electricity and refrigeration needed to store it).
The development of IoT technology and artificial intelligence provides various benefits for wild fishing, sea, and land-based fish farms globally. These technologies are helping to safeguard global food security, ensuring practices are economical and sustainable.
Shrimp farming requires hundreds of activities daily. Based on various standard operating procedures (SOPs) and data solutions for farms around Indonesia, below is a list consists of the top tips that every shrimp farmer needs to know. Some of the things from this list are probably very well known compared to the others, but all of the tips will hopefully be useful for your farm.
As an archipelago country, Indonesia has great potential in the fisheries industry, especially because it has a fairly broad sea area of 7.9 million km2 and a long coastline of 80,791 km2, with extensive aquaculture and fishponds spread in some parts of the country. With such a coastline size (the second-longest after Canada), Indonesia has a great opportunity to become the largest cultivated shrimp producer in the world with the largest potential for ponds and cultivated shrimp production (3 million hectares) and the largest in the world.