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Aquaculture in Alaska is dominated by the production of shellfish and aquatic plants. These include Pacific oysters , blue mussels , littleneck clams , scallops, and bull kelp . Finfish farming has been prohibited in Alaska by the 16.40.210 Alaskan statute, however non-profit mariculture continues to provide a steady supply of aquaculture in ...
The Western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program was created by the Council in 1992 to provide western Alaska communities an opportunity to participate in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) fisheries that had been foreclosed to them because of the high capital investment needed to enter the fishery. [1]
Mariculture, sometimes called marine farming or marine aquaculture, [1] is a branch of aquaculture involving the cultivation of marine organisms for food and other animal products, in seawater. Subsets of it include ( offshore mariculture ), fish farms built on littoral waters ( inshore mariculture ), or in artificial tanks , ponds or raceways ...
In the early 1970s Alaska's commercial salmon industry was at a point of collapse because of a decline in abundance of salmon. The fishing industry worked in part with the state of Alaska to draft legislation that would allow the formation of Regional Aquaculture Associations. The associations would support their infrastructure by receiving ...
According to the FAO, "...a fishery is an activity leading to harvesting of fish.It may involve capture of wild fish or raising of fish through aquaculture." It is typically defined in terms of the "people involved, species or type of fish, area of water or seabed, method of fishing, class of boats, purpose of the activities or a combination of the foregoing features".
The 2008 global returns for fish farming recorded by the FAO totaled 33.8 million tonnes worth about US$60 billion. [6] Although fish farming for food is the most widespread, another major fish farming industry provides living fish for the aquarium trade.
In many parts of Alaska, the soil is acidic, and could greatly improve with the introduction of lime or wood ash. The biomes range from tundra, which is rich in underlying peat moss to taiga, boreal forest, and temperate rain forest. Because Alaska was once dominated by glaciers, much of the underlying subsurface is glacial till, silt and sand.
Finfish species must be feed regularly, but shellfish do not, which can reduce costs. [14] The University of New Hampshire in the US has conducted research on the farming of blue mussels submerged in an open ocean environment. [34] They have found that when farmed in less polluted waters offshore, [35] the mussels develop more flesh with ...