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Fish Farming in Pennsylvania
Fish Farm PA is not a destination, but a love, a hobby, a livelihood, or a dream. Pennsylvania waters are ideal for raising sport fish like bass and trout. Commercial aquaculture is a huge industry in Pennsylvania; it is #4 in US trout production, and the #1 US trout fishing state, adding well over a billion dollars a year to the state’s economy. Growers here produce 70% of the trout in the northeastern states. Pennsylvania boasts the world’s largest goldfish farm, largest trout farm east of the Mississippi, and has one of the oldest continually operating trout hatcheries (1902). It is the 11th largest aquaculture producing state.
Fish grown include: bass, trout, bluegills, catfish, crappie, shiners, walleye, dace, carp, suckers, perch, killifish, crayfish, minnows, mummichog, eel, goldfish, mussels, sunfish, tadpoles, pickerel, frogs, and bullhead.
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Carp Fishing – Business Or Pleasure
According to the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), nearly half the fish consumed worldwide are raised on fish farms, rather than caught in the wild. In 1980 just 9% of human fish consumption came from aquaculture; today, that figure exceeds 43% – over 45 million tonnes a year.
Globally, consumer demand for fish continues to climb, especially in affluent, developed nations, whilst capture levels of wild fish have remained roughly stable since the mid-1980s. There is, according to the FAO, very little chance of significant increase beyond current catch levels; indeed, with almost three quarters of the world’s fisheries either fully or over exploited, catch levels could easily fall, and it is therefore inevitable that aquaculture will be called on to meet a significant proportion of our rapidly rising demands.
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Investing in Aquaculture for Food Security
Food security clearly is more than just food production, nutrition, or food aid. Alleviating hunger, a severe manifestation of poverty, depends in the long run on sustainable and broad-based economic growth and income generation. In many poor countries, these depend on a productive, competitive, and sustainable agricultural sector. To achieve these conditions, countries must invest in rural areas to strengthen agriculture, aquaculture, the food system, and infrastructure, and to restore and conserve critical natural resources for agricultural production. This requires both public and private investment — domestic and foreign.
However, this is not enough. All sectors of civil society must work together if we are to succeed in our objective to achieve food for all. Investing in agriculture and aquaculture for food security means that grassroots and local efforts together with government, the private sector, multilateral and bilateral efforts at national level should all be focused on a common vision and agenda for food security . Food security is defined as: “…all people, at all times, having the physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food in order to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life” (World Food Summit Plan of Action 1996)
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