Fish Farming Report: Recommendations, Profitability, and Solutions

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of fish farming, offering recommendations for future improvements and profitability. It explores various fish farming methods, from small-scale to large-scale enterprises, and emphasizes the importance of government activity in aquaculture development, particularly in the small-scale farming sector. The report highlights the potential for integrating fish farming into existing agricultural practices to generate additional income and improve water management. It discusses the economic aspects of different farming approaches, including extensive, semi-intensive, and intensive farming, and underscores the importance of research in understanding and improving farming systems. The report also addresses solutions for sustainable fish farming, such as closed containment systems to minimize environmental impact, and the Velella Project's approach to sustainable fish meal and oil. It emphasizes the need for visibility in aquaculture value chains, e-traceability, and real-time business intelligence to reduce operational costs and enhance quality. Furthermore, the report discusses the impacts of fish farming on the environment, including waste management and the potential for disease, and offers suggestions for mitigating these issues through improved practices and technologies.

Report

Contents
Write future recommendation for fish farming and its improvements............................................1
How is this more profitable for us...................................................................................................1
Its solutions......................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................6

Write future recommendation for fish farming and its
improvements
The fish farming methods range from backyard subsistence ponds to the large-scale enterprises.
The recommendations for the fish farming could be set for the profitable business venture where
the focus is on the government activity in the aquaculture development which is directed towards
the small-scale farming sector. Along with this, the development approaches are mainly to
understand the farming practices with the small sector and the other special potentials. The
information on the local farming systems with the agencies involving the farming systems could
be instigates with the different involvement of the fish farming research (Quyen et al., 2017).
The programme is based on the identification, testing and the adaptation of the low external
input, with low management solutions for the small-scale farmers. The improvement could be in
the development of Peking duck-cum-fish production system for the production and transfer to
the private sector, where the agricultural extension service is for the basic training in the
integrated fish farming in the small-scale farming sector.
How is this more profitable for us
The fish farming methods could be important for the high-quality animal protein with the
consumption set for the human. Here, the farmer can easily integrate the method into the existing
farm to create an additional income with the improvement of the water management. The fish
growth in the ponds can be controlled where the farmers tend to make the selection of the fish
species where the production in the pond is for the owner’s property with the security and the
harvesting at will. The effective use of the land with the use of the marginal land is to handle the
draining for agriculture which could profitably devote to the fish farming. In the extensive

farming, the economic and the labour inputs are low where the natural food production plays an
important role where the system productivity is low as well (Clark et al., 2017). The semi-
intensive fish farming also needs to work on the supplementary feeding where there are higher
labour and the feed costs. The intensive farming is profitable with the focus that it can handle the
high fish stocking density. The focus of the research is on the integration of the fish farming
which works over the comprehensive approach to understand the farming systems of the small-
scale sectors. This is also based on the agriculture type which is important for the development
than in the agro-industrial type of farming. The contribution is mainly of the farming system
programs where the research is about the identification of specific target groups set with the
small-scale sector and the identification of the resource poor farmers.

Its solutions
With the fish farming, there are closed containment systems which provides the barrier mainly in
between the farmed and the native species. It includes the minimisation of the impact on the
environment by properly providing the safe water and then avoiding the escaped fish and
processing the waste without polluting the shores. The water is cleaned with the lesser needs for
the antibiotics. The projects like the Velella Project in Hawaii can handle the sustainable die of
the fish meal and the oil.
It also provides the visibility with the aquaculture value chain and the operations from the pond
to market where the farmer play an important role (Hudson et al., 2016). The focus is on the
visibility of the operations and the supply chain, with the e-traceability and the real-time business
intelligence, with reduced operational costs and internal control for the enhancement of the
quality. The system also includes the handling of the pollution from the large biomass of fish

which includes the waste of the fish that have a major impact on the ocean floor. The Salmon
farms are only for the deep water where the organic waste has a minimised impact on the ocean
floor as well. The impacts are mainly of the fish domestication where there are no pathogens that
have crossed from the water to the humans with the infectious diseases. This cause the epidemics
or the pandemics. Hence, the improvement could be in the ability to raise the product that is
under the controlled conditions with the uniform size which is irresistible.

References
Clark, M., & Tilman, D. (2017). Comparative analysis of environmental impacts of agricultural production
systems, agricultural input efficiency, and food choice.
Hudson, S., Krogman, N., & Beckie, M. (2016). Social practices of knowledge mobilization for sustainable
food production: nutrition gardening and fish farming in the kolli hills of India. Food Security, 8(3),
523-533.
Quyen, N. T. K., Berg, H., Gallardo, W., & Da, C. T. (2017). Stakeholders’ perceptions of ecosystem
services and Pangasius catfish farming development along the Hau River in the Mekong Delta,
Vietnam. Ecosystem Services, 25, 2-14.