‘If we want to eat it, we have to farm it’: the push to grow Australia’s $2bn aquaculture industry

  • 📰 GuardianAus
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 14 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 9%
  • Publisher: 98%

South Africa News News

South Africa South Africa Latest News,South Africa South Africa Headlines

Farmed seafood overtook wild caught fish for the first time in 2021-2022. ‘It can be extremely profitable,’ researcher says

“With the amount of the population that we’ve got now [wild fishing] is unsustainable. I think we will very quickly deplete any species that we stop farming.”by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences , Aquaculture has become Australia’s most valuable seafood industry, overtaking wild caught fish for the first time in 2021-2022 in terms of gross value of production and hitting a peak value of over $2bn.

“The demand for freshwater crayfish is insatiable,” Valverde said. “And the prices are really good. We just have the problem of – as farmers – figuring out how to produce enough of them.Sign up to receive Guardian Australia’s fortnightly Rural Network email newsletter

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 1. in ZA

South Africa South Africa Latest News, South Africa South Africa Headlines