Farming Nemo (infographic)

Aquaculture began on Chinese silk farms on 3500 B.C. and it means raising fish under control conditions instead of letting living them in the wild: it seems that this technique has become the fastest growing source of animal proteins. Among the top ten seafoods consumed by Americans in 2010 are listed shrimps, tuna, salmons, pollocks, catfishes, crabs and cods.

Dealing with farmed herbivorous fishes such as tilapia, they eat vegetables oil, minerals and vitamins while shellfishes such as oysters are "filter feeders" that means they eat plankton and other particles already present in the water.

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