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aquaculture) Mussel farming in Chile. Mussel farming is an increasingly popular and profitable form of aquaculture. Fishermen collect the mussels from lines to which dense clusters have attached themselves. The most commonly farmed mussel is the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis. ) Mussel farming in Chile. Chile is one of the most important fisheries in the world, and in addition to line- and-net caught fish such as mackerel and anchovy, fish farming is now increasingly practised. Large clusters of mussels attach themselves to lines, from which the fish farmers collect them. The cultivation of fish and shellfish for human consumption; see fish farming. |
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| Aquaculture of salmon constitutes a rapidly growing worldwide industry with an expanding globalized market (1,2). To help ensure the security of this food source, government officials meeting at the August 2005 Secretariat of the Economic Community of West African States endorsed the Abuja Declaration on Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture in Africa. We wanted to see if it was possible to farm fish and shellfish offshore, in an extreme environment like the Gulf of Maine," says Richard Langan, director of the University of New Hampshire's Open Ocean Aquaculture project, which is also raising halibut, mussels and sea scallops in sunken cages. |
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