An Atlantic salmon cage site. Photo by Shutterstock/Leo W. Kowal
This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. You can download the entire report here.
The practice of farming finfish, shellfish and aquatic plants by land and by sea dates back 3,000 years as first the Chinese and then the Romans sought ways to supplement their food supplies with species such as carp and oysters.
In more modern times, support for aquaculture has ebbed and flowed along with concerns about animal health and welfare, worries over the effluent pollution caused by wastewater discharges, and the unintended impacts of production infrastructure such as pipes and pumps on natural ecosystems.