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Offshore aquaculture, also known as open water aquaculture or open ocean aquaculture, is an emerging approach to mariculture (seawater aquafarming) where fish farms are positioned in deeper and less sheltered waters some distance away from the coast, where the cultivated fish stocks are exposed to more naturalistic living conditions with ...
Wuchuan [a] is a county-level city in southwestern Guangdong province, China. It is the easternmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Zhanjiang . Wuchuan covers an area of 848 square kilometers (327 sq mi), with an population of 907,354 as of 2020.
Subsets of it include (offshore mariculture), fish farms built on littoral waters (inshore mariculture), or in artificial tanks, ponds or raceways which are filled with seawater (onshore mariculture). An example of the latter is the farming of plankton and seaweed, shellfish like shrimp or oysters, and marine finfish, in saltwater ponds.
It aims to do this through high-tech vegetable farms (i.e. multi-storey hydroponics farms), and through aquaculture farms. By using multi-storey hydroponics farms, land productivity can be increased and energy and water resource use can be maximised. [11] [12] Singapore was ranked 1st on the Global Food Security Index in 2019. [13]
The major aquaculture-producing regions are generally concentrated in the coastal regions. China is also increasingly moving into offshore fish farms and has large scale salmon farms in the Yellow Sea as well as planning to build the world's first 100,000-tonne large-scale fish farming vessel by March 2022. [6] [7] [8] [9]
FILE - An Atlantic salmon leaps out of the water at a Cooke Aquaculture farm pen on Oct. 11, 2008, near Eastport, Maine. A New Hampshire group wants to be the first to bring offshore fish farming ...
To cut greenhouse gas emissions, thousands of solar panels stretched out into the sea off Singapore, a floating solar farm built due to the lack of available land.
In June 2006 islanders were fishing offshore at Sandy Point when they spotted an oil platform washed ashore on the coast. The 6000-tonne platform PXXI had been lost in bad weather en route from Brazil to Singapore. [6]