Aquaculture : resource use, and the environment / Claude E. Boyd, Professor, Water Quality, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, College of Agriculture, Auburn University, Alabama, USA ; Aaron A. McNevin, Director, Aquaculture, World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC, USA.
Publisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons Inc., [2015]Copyright date: copy©2015Description: 1 online resource (366 pages) : illustrations (some color), mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780470959190 (cloth)
- 9781118858073 (e-book)
- 639.8 23
- SH135 .B69 2015eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An overview of aquaculture -- World population -- World food production -- Assessing resource use and environmental impacts -- Land use -- Water use by aquaculture systems -- Energy use and atmospheric emissions -- Protein conversion and the fish meal and oil issue -- Chemicals in aquaculture -- Water pollution -- Biodiversity -- Governmental regulations -- Best management practices -- Eco-label certification -- Some final thoughts.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.