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Introduction

Forms of cultivation

Why aquaculture

History

Which specie

Problems associated with aquaculture

Cultivating molluscs

Cultivating blue mussels

Methods of cultivation

Problems associated with mussel cultivation

Threats

Poisonous mussels?

Foodstuffs
(recipe)

Aquaculture

 

Introduction

By aquaculture, we mean the cultivation of Marine organisms such as fish, mussels, crustaceans and algae. The reason for cultivation is to get higher returns than would be normally possible in a natural environment. The most economically important type of aquaculture is fish-farming.

 

 

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