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Constructing a Model for Small Scale Fish Farmers

abstract: Fish farming is a fast growing industry, which, although necessary to feed an ever growing worldwide population, has its share of negative environmental consequences, including the release of drugs and other waste into the ocean, the use of fish caught from the ocean to feed farm raised fish, and the escape of farm raised fish into natural bodies of water. However, the raising of certain types of fish, such as tilapia, seems to be an environmentally better proposition than raising other types of fish, such as salmon. This paper will explore the problems associated with fish farming, as well as offer a model, based on the literature, and interviews with fish farmers, to make small-scale fish farming both more environmentally, and more economically, sustainable. This paper culminates with a model for small-scale, specifically semi-subsistence, fish farmers. This model emphasizes education of the fish farmers, as well as educators learning from the fish farmers they interact with. The goal of this model is to help these fish farmers become both more environmentally and economically sustainable. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S.Tech Technology 2011

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:9165
Date January 2011
ContributorsLongoni, Robert A. (Author), Parmentier, Mary Jane (Advisor), Grossman, Gary (Committee member), Macia, Narciso (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMasters Thesis
Format94 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved

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