Humanity can farm more food from the seas to help feed the planet while shrinking mariculture’s negative impacts on biodiversity, according to new research led by the University of Michigan.
Humanity can farm more food from the seas to help feed the planet while shrinking mariculture’s negative impacts on biodiversity, according to new research led by the University of Michigan.
There is a catch, though: We need to be strategic about it.
“We can achieve this sustainable mariculture development,” said Deqiang Ma, who led the study as a postdoctoral researcher at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability. “With strategic planning, we can achieve the goal of conserving marine species while meeting the global demand for the expansion of mariculture.”
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By building up capacity in strategic places, mariculture operations, like this one shown in a Chilean fjord, can help feed the planet’s growing population while reducing their impact on marine biodiversity, according to new research led by the University of Michigan. (Photo Credit: Gordon Leggett/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0)
