Opportunities and Obstacles to Aquaculture in Florida
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Keywords

regulations
fish
fish farms
aquaculture
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How to Cite

Camp, Ed, Taryn Garlock, and James Anderson. 2020. “Opportunities and Obstacles to Aquaculture in Florida: FA221/FA221, 5/2020”. EDIS 2020 (3). Gainesville, FL:6. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-fa221-2020.

Abstract

Aquaculture is growing in Florida as it is worldwide, but in Florida aquaculture has not yet reached its substantial potential. To understand why this might be, the University of Florida's Institute of Sustainable Food Systems organized and convened a meeting between small-agency, industry, and academic stakeholders to discuss the opportunities and obstacles to aquaculture in Florida. This 6-page fact sheet written by Edward Camp, Taryn Garlock, and James Anderson and published by the UF/IFAS School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, describes the proceedings of this meeting in the context of the broader scientific literature explaining why aquaculture ventures do and sometimes do not succeed.

https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-fa221-2020
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