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fish farming
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fish farming npiscicoltura


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Fish-farming is a good response to the kind of over-exploitation hitting stocks of fish and crustaceans, or even threatening species, they added.
Offshore aquaculture has some natural advantages over coastal fish-farming operations because open-ocean winds, waves, and currents can naturally remove excess feed and wastes.
Nonetheless, the threat to Atlantic salmon is so severe that the FWS and NMFS have called for reducing water diversions to increase river flows, tighter restrictions on sport-fishing, and closer regulation of fish-farming.
 
 
 
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