Sustainable Aquaculture

We all know how weather conditions can have an affect on crops and depending on who you talk to climate change is either no big deal or a disaster on the come. Here's some quick feedback from one of our listeners. "Ask any Farmer who has been around for 50 years and he will agree, weather changes from year to year... decade to decade.... sometimes getting colder.... sometimes getting warmer.... some years you have a drought and some years you have an over abundance of rain and snow.   Freak weather occurrences are nothing new .... Just keep's life interesting

But getting back to feeding the world population in 2050, aquaculture may play a key role. I talked with expert Lucas Romero from New Era aquaculture about sustainability and about feeding the world: "Sustainability is the name of the game today. The only way to grow from here on is through sustainability. That is the big question mark in any industry. The greatest sustainability today in the animal world will be from the aqua world over the land world simply because if we want to feed the world in 2050 we are going to have to increase production in the land by 70 to 75%. That would have to come through increasing surface area for agriculture or increasing yields per-unit area. Aqua is the next frontier to feed and protein coming from capture and culture but mostly from culture in the future.

 

Idaho produces more than 70 percent of the United States' farmed trout, and Idaho's aquaculture industry generates $100 million annually.