How to Use aquaculture in a Sentence
aquaculture
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The growth of aquaculture has more than halved the U.S. shrimp fleet since the 1990s.
— Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024 -
Poly is one of two schools in the city with the aquaculture program.
— Liz Bowie, baltimoresun.com, 25 Jan. 2018 -
In Norway, there are hundreds of times more salmon in aquaculture than in the wild.
— Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2017 -
The sterlet is the clear choice of the aquaculture industry.
— Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 7 Apr. 2018 -
There are no aquaculture farms in the closed area, according to MDE.
— Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 30 Nov. 2021 -
Cheers to Maine for supporting the growth of aquaculture.
— BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2021 -
First there were thousands of dead salmon in aquaculture cages.
— National Geographic, 17 May 2016 -
In the mid-1990s, the dollar value of aquaculture didn’t even crack six digits.
— Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2022 -
The baby eels are used as seed stock by Asian aquaculture companies and can fetch more than $2,000 per pound at the docks.
— USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2020 -
The top marine aquaculture species were oysters, clams and salmon.
— Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2020 -
Global demand for fish has driven the rise of aquaculture, or the farming of fish.
— Wired, 5 Aug. 2022 -
The students have cilantro as their next sharing crop, and in the fall, tilapia from the school’s aquaculture program will be used for a fish fry for students.
— Charles Selle, Lake County News-Sun, 9 Apr. 2018 -
The fourth pilot will further the port’s aquaculture ambitions to grow oysters in the bay.
— Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 July 2017 -
The pens are different from aquaculture pens used by North Korea to raise fish.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Nov. 2020 -
Asia was the source of more than 90% of all aquaculture production of aquatic animals, the FAO added.
— Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 June 2024 -
They were brought to Connecticut from Europe in 1871 as an easy to raise food source — the state’s first aquaculture, Beauchene said.
— Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 4 June 2021 -
But the main reason aquaculture is booming is that cities are booming, too.
— The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018 -
HB 4884: Prohibit aquaculture in the Great Lakes, inland lakes and streams.
— Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, 20 Aug. 2017 -
But six years later thirteen hundred square miles of mangroves had been lost to palm-oil and rice farms and shrimp aquaculture.
— Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022 -
As a result, aquaculture is a big part of the Belizean economy.
— Nydia Simone, refinery29.com, 16 June 2022 -
Once Europeans arrived in the area, clam aquaculture fell by the wayside.
— Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 14 Oct. 2019 -
The eels are sold to Asian aquaculture companies that use them as seed stock so they can be raised to maturity and used as food.
— From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2021 -
At the time, aquaculture was just taking off in the country, which now has 4 million household ponds raising fish.
— David Pitt, Star Tribune, 11 May 2021 -
Lisa Carne has brought Vaughan down to Belize three times to lead trainings on coral restoration and aquaculture.
— Rowan Moore Gerety, Wired, 5 Apr. 2022 -
Learn about aquaculture and fisheries, then visit the shellfish farm in Potter Pond.
— Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022 -
That problem is not specific to aquaculture, or to Bangladesh.
— The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018 -
Offshore aquaculture projects have a harder time finding investors because the ocean is seen as a black box.
— Quartz, 10 Nov. 2022 -
The tiny fish are sometimes worth more than $2,000 per pound because of their high value to Asian aquaculture companies.
— Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 2 May 2024 -
It is found in very high quantities in Fresh Spirulina which is an edible aquaculture.
— Brian Heteich, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2024 -
To tackle this problem, the Florida Aquarium has teamed up with University of Florida aquaculture researchers to bring more sea urchins into the world.
— Lisa S. Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
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