Question

Which is a disadvantage of using aquaculture to produce fish?

Answer 1

Answer:

Aquaculture is a type of farming performed in water bodies like lakes, ponds, oceans to breed aquatic plants and animals like fish, mollusks, crustaceans, algae, etc. Aquafarming is done to increase food production and to earn money from it.

Apart from the advantages aqua farming has several disadvantages. One of the main disadvantages is the transfer of parasites or diseases from one fish to another is easy in aquaculture because fishes live in dense populations in aquaculture. So fish in aquaculture are highly vulnerable to diseases.

Excess fecal matter produced by farmed fish can pollute the ecosystem which has an adverse effect on the other species live in that ecosystem.