Title: Fish farming: socio-economic innovations to empower the small farmer

Authors: Kathleen A. Nolan

Addresses: Biology and Health Promotion Department, St. Francis College, 180 Remsen St. Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA

Abstract: Fish farming currently accounts for approximately 46% of all consumed fish, which is a dramatic increase over the past 20 years. Problems such as mixing of farmed with wild fish, transgenic fish, disease, pollution, antibiotic resistance and regulations are addressed. These are juxtaposed with positives such as food insecurity and malnutrition alleviation and economic empowerment that occur as a result of fish farming. Socio-economic innovations and entrepreneurship through fish farming will continue to be a positive response overall to our era of global economic and financial crisis.

Keywords: fish farming; poverty; economic empowerment; small farmers; malnutrition; food security; aquaculture; genetic integrity; socio-economic innovation; fish mixing; transgenic fish; disease; pollution; antibiotic resistance; regulations.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSEI.2011.043746

International Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2011 Vol.1 No.2, pp.199 - 212

Published online: 19 Nov 2011 *

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