Aquaculture, the world's investment to produce food
Aquaculture, an industry which has existed for 30 some years, involves breeding aquatic organisms from coastal and rural zones in order to improve the production. Thanks to this technique humans currently cultivate around 567 species of fish, crustaceans, molluscs and plants. This allows for species to be saved which would otherwise disappear with extractive fishing, thus ensuring greater genetic diversity.
One of the global challenges is to make aquaculture more sustainable. With this goal, we aim to improve the nutrition which is provided to the fish with natural ingredients such as nucleotides and bioactive peptides in order to fight against diseases by reinforcing their immunity system and their digestive capacity, among other aspects which affect food quality and security, as well as the environment. Even so, in a scientific congress in Chile Dr. Daniel Benetti, one of the world's leading experts in sustainable aquaculture at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science de Miami (USA), explained that recent decades have seen immense advances in sustainability and that aquaculture has a bright future (see the article on the website Aqua.cl).
