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Aquaculture in the Midwest


"Far more than in any other restaurant segment, the seafood operator's success depends on how well he does at buying product. Procurement has always been complicated by pricing and supply fluctuations" (Casper 1991)

Aquaculture in the Midwest


" Chicken farmers have entered the aquaculture market because they already had water, and they had the infrastructure in place, as well as the market. One of these former chicken farmers now produces 500 pounds of tilapia each week in northwest Ohio, selling it to restaurants and grocery stores in Columbus, Dayton and Toledo (Hannah, 2002)

Aquaculture in the Midwest


Aquaculture problems In 2003, a 30-pound silver carp shot out of the Lamine River in Missouri, struck the boater on the side of his face, knocking out a molar. Its fin also sliced his arm (Lien, 2003)

Aquaculture in the Midwest


Prawns, which are extremely large shrimp, are also providing aquaculture income in Illinois. Prawns can grow in cooler climates than other fish, so that farmers in "Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois and Ohio have been dumping buckets of the half-inch juveniles into their ponds and raising them the few months to adulthood, netting as much as $4,000 an acre" without the need for heated ponds (Luke, 2002)

Aquaculture in the Midwest


Without the filtering insects, algae blooms took over the wetlands, causing aquatic plants to die and further ruining the wetlands' clear water. The resulting green-tinged wetlands had neither the nutrient-rich insects nor plants to attract and feed such wild ducks as mallards and bluebills (Niskanen, 2005)

Aquaculture in the Midwest


S. biologists are manipulating genes and chromosomes in hopes of creating 'superfish' for the table and the den wall (Thornton, 1988)

Aquaculture in the Midwest


Aquaculture in the Midwest Except for bucolic scenes of fishing on rivers meandering across the Midwest and Great Plains, most people don't equate fish with that region, at least not huge catches of commercial fish. However, as long ago as 1996, "traders in the 'futures pit' of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange were shouting and signaling bids and offers for spring wheat, white wheat, white shrimp and black tiger shrimp" (Weber 1996)

Aquaculture and Biotechnology as Methods


The bollworm that ravages cotton crops in India accounted, in 2003, for the destruction of more than 50% of the nations' cotton harvest. (Yang, 1) However, during this same year, a breed of cotton was engineered for resistance against the bollworm "with a gene from the insecticidal bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)

A Sustainable Aquaculture Success Story

Year : 2013