Fish farming is a branch of the aquaculture. Specialized in fish farming, the pisciculture It is carried out both in seawater and in fresh water, in enclaves (swimming pools) or floating nets.
El culture fish farm It encompasses more than twenty species, such as sea bream, sea bass, salmon, sturgeon ... Other species such as tuna are not farmed, but are fattened. Indeed, the techniques for controlling the reproduction of these species. Thus, some wild specimens are caught in high seas and are caged to be fattened before actually being fished.
La pisciculture is an ancient technique that was widely used in the Age Media to provide fish to the religious and the European population on Good Friday.
Currently, fish farming is presented as one of the means to respond to the demand important fish of the consumers, avoiding overfishing and depletion of fish means fisheries.
In any case, the pisciculture presents, like all types of intensive crops, a certain number of drawbacks: growing development of pathologies, contamination (concentration of excrements, pathogens, sanitary products, etc.), evasion of specimens (invasive species, contamination genetics) ...
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