Challenges posed by climate change in the future scenario of coastal aquaculture -Winter School on Impact of Climate Change on Indian Marine Fisheries held at CMFRI, Cochin 18.1.2008 to 7.2.2008

Gopakumar, G (2008) Challenges posed by climate change in the future scenario of coastal aquaculture -Winter School on Impact of Climate Change on Indian Marine Fisheries held at CMFRI, Cochin 18.1.2008 to 7.2.2008. [Teaching Resource]

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Abstract

Aquaculture is considered as a sunrise sector for increasing fish production since the capture fisheries have reached almost stagnation levels. With more than 8% annual growth globally, the sector is now considered as the fastest growing food producing sector in the world. Today aquaculture provides around half of the fish for human consumption and this share will need to grow further. The global aquaculture production showed that 25.8 million tonnes (m t) of freshwater organisms were produced (43.8%), 30.2 m t (50.9%) of marine organisms, and 3.4 m t of brackishwater organisms comprising nearly 63% shrimps (FAO, 2006).

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