🐟 Fishing series: From the fishing rod to ultra-productive fish farms: Difference between revisions

In comparison to the Aquaculture sector, the diversity of species resulting from Capture fishing is much larger. The first reason being that eventhough specific marine areas can  concentrate a large percentage of a particular species, a fishing boat will, however, hardly be able select exactly which species will end up in its net. Moreover, not all species can be raised in aquaculture: humans did not “domesticate” so many of them<ref><small>“Two scenarios for the future of aquaculture are discussed: either the industry focuses on few truly domesticated species, similar to the path taken by agriculture, but avoiding its negative impacts or aquaculture proceeds with inter‐specific diversification by focusing primarily on the domestication of native species.”</small> F. Teletchea, P.Fontaine, <i>Levels of domestication in fish: implications for the sustainable future of aquaculture</i>, Abstract, Fish & fisheries, vol.15, Issue 2, 2014.</ref>, as we do not fully master their captive reproduction because we started later than for land animals. This explains why fishing stalls offer a much larger variety of species than that of the butcher’s. The second being that the choice of species farmed in Aquaculture depends on offer and demand, whereas capture Fishery relies only on geography.