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Farming the ocean because wild fish stopped returning our calls.
means The practice of cultivating fish, shellfish, and seaweed in the sea or in tanks of seawater, rather than catching them wild.
from A straightforward 20th-century blend of Latin 'mare' (sea) and 'culture' in its farming sense, the same '-culture' found in agriculture and aquaculture — scientists simply needed a precise word once ocean farming grew from a fringe practice into a real industry.
- scale
- produces over half the world's seafood now
- top crop
- seaweed, not salmon, dominates global output
- risk
- escaped farmed fish can wreck wild gene pools
- origin
- oysters were cultivated by Romans 2000 years ago