Today on Florida Sea Grant Marine Science Minute: Restoration Aquaculture
Aquaculture as a food production system has been around for thousands of years. In the past few decades, aquaculture – or the farming of aquatic organisms – has been gaining momentum as a tool to restore impacted species and habitats.
Ecological restoration, especially when done underwater, is a tricky business and the priority should always be to reduce impacts and conserve existing species and habitats.
However, in a state like Florida with almost 22 million residents and over 130 million annual visitors, impacts to coastal areas are unavoidable.
Florida Sea Grant supports restoration aquaculture research on a wide array of marine life that has been impacted by human activity.
For information about this and other coastal topics, contact your county extension office or visit Florida Sea Grant at flseagrant.org.