What is being done to improve aquaculture practices?
Research is being conducted around the world on various aspects of aquaculture from the development of improved husbandry practices, to selective breeding towards strong and healthy fish stocks to dietary and nutritional alternatives to disease management and control. For instance, the Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance is developing a National Code for Responsible Aquaculture which outlines several good production practices for aquaculture producers on topics such as cleaning and disinfection, transportation, harvesting, prevention of escapes and disease and parasite prevention. Further, many provinces and individual companies have developed their own best practices codes to ensure the safe, responsible production of high quality aquaculture products. Selective breeding involves breeding an organism that has a desirable trait with another so that the desirable trait is passed to the next generation. Selective breeding programs are programs that are carefully monitored and controll
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