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advantage of mariculture

Mariculture is the culturing of marine fishes, shell fishes and other marine life in the seas or in ponds filled with sea water.

Advantages of mariculture are:

1) Marine fishes are a very good source of certain vitamins and minerals like iodine.

2) Mariculture is used to obtain a major part of edible fishes required by world.

3) If done in a sustainable form then it is environmental friendly.

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Sustainable Fishing
Higher yields (no Anaerobic Gill Disease) due to freshwater paths
No waste Food due to auto feeder and Infrared Technology
Each Generation Artificially selected to only obtain fish with highest possible yield and disease resistance, increasing yield.
Can be genetically modified to have a 10 fold size increase, and can be made to grow on less nutrients and be more disease resistant.
- Increased growth of fish in hatcheries, due to artificially fertilizing eggs, leading to higher chance of fertilization, as in the wild only 10% of eggs are fertilized.

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