. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. produced over 45,000 tons of high- priced salmon. And Canadian salmon farmers weren't far behind in their production of the pink-fleshed gourmet fish. For Asian and Latin American aquaculturists, shrimp is the crop they're cashing in on. In Third-World country Ecuador, the shrimp culture industry has provided over 150,000 jobs and $250 million in foreign ex- change funds. In the United States, aquaculture is in its infancy. Experts estimate that the business of fish farming con- tributes between 6 and 12 p
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. produced over 45,000 tons of high- priced salmon. And Canadian salmon farmers weren't far behind in their production of the pink-fleshed gourmet fish. For Asian and Latin American aquaculturists, shrimp is the crop they're cashing in on. In Third-World country Ecuador, the shrimp culture industry has provided over 150,000 jobs and $250 million in foreign ex- change funds. In the United States, aquaculture is in its infancy. Experts estimate that the business of fish farming con- tributes between 6 and 12 percent to total fishery production. Presently most of that production (86 percent) is in freshwater species. The Mississippi landscape glitters from the sun's reflection off acre after acre of catfish ponds. T\venty-five years ago, those ponds were as non- existent as the catfish industry. But today, catfish farming is the na- tion's aquaculture success story. It ac- counts for over 50 percent of the cultured production. But catfish may not be the aquacul- ture kingpin for long. The production of other species is growing rapidly, and still more species are being readied. Crawfish, for instance, used to be something only true Lx)uisianians ate. But with the popularity of Cajun cooking, crawfish have become a hot culinary ingredient. So hot in fact, that Louisiana aquaculturists are devoting 130,000 acres to the red-bodied crustaceans, and South Carolina plantation owners are converting abandoned rice paddies into crawfish ponds. But whether it's catfish or crawfish, the aquaculture industry needed research to get its fish into ponds. In. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original UNC Sea Grant College Program. [Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program]
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