Fish Farming Persuasive Essay

There is no question, the is world faced by problematic challenges in feeding the world today and in the near future. The population is increasing expeditiously, in the last 50 years, the worlds population multiplied more rapidly than ever before, and is expected to grow at the same rate in the future. This population is going to have to be fed meaning the world is going to have to produce a lot more food.

Every 10 or 20 years many countries such as Australia conduct a periodic census which counts the number of people in the country. Additionally most countries have government records of births, deaths and such. This information gives a pretty accurate figure of the worlds growing population. In 1950, the world had 2.5 billion people

and in 2005, the world had 6.5 billion people. “By 2050, this number could rise to more than 9 billion.” The high increase in population could be a result of less deaths. Hospital records show that more people are being cured, medical sciences are saving many more people from dying an early death and maternal death has decreased dramatically. Nina Fedoroff said “we need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet cant support many more people” in disbelief that there is a solution to feed the growing population.

Additionally large wars that previously cause mass amount of deaths aren't happening anymore. Non-government agencies such as Red Cross, United Nations and World Vision provide food for starving people and for people in developing countries and prevent many of them from dying. All this is backed by the urbanization of cities and towns, Aerial and satellite photos taken over many years, show the growth of urban areas increasing more and more every year.
Is enough food being grown today?
Today there is supposedly “enough food to feed 10 billion people.” Currently hunger is caused by poverty and inequality, not scarcity of food. All countries grow their own food, that also import and export food which is harder to grow in their land. Many countries grow more crops and have more food than they need therefore also throwing away mass amounts of food daily. While many developing countries have people starving daily such as Zimbabwe, Burundi and Liberia. In Zimbabwe corn is the staple food, with millet, wheat and barley also grown for the local market. About 90 percent of Burundi's population is engaged in subsistence agriculture, with the main staples being beans, bananas, cassava, sweet potatoes, maize, sorghum and rice. In these countries people who are well off eat well however underprivileged people starve.
There are multiple ways of assessing the agricultural output of a country, including tonnage and the dollar volume of the commodities produced. Both are just as important, as often the case that commodities critical to the food supply of a less developed country doesn't show up as a high dollar value crop. For the major cereal and vegetable crops, the United States, China, India and Russia frequently come as the leaders. To no surprise China is the leading worldwide producer of rice, but it is also the leading producer of wheat and the second highest leading producer of maize, as well as the largest producer of many vegetables including onions and cabbage. In the matter of total production, the United States is third highest leader in wheat and first in maize and soybeans. However there are other important crops, millet is a staple crop in much of Africa and Asia, and India and Nigeria are the leading producers. Furthermore, barley, rye and beans are not highly important in the United States, but are crucial crops in countries like Russia, Germany and India.
Change in potential cereal output by 2080

Less developed countries are insufficient in their agricultural practices and lack good, modern farming equipment that is used by developed countries. Other than the equipment, the soil can be less fertile and degraded rather than the one in developed countries, resulting in a decrease in the quality and ability of growth of plants. The food for domestic and international use, may also be impaired by transportation, if the vehicles also lack enhanced technology such as cold chains that conserve and store the food well during transportation. Subsistence agriculture, is a form of agriculture in where a plot of land only produces enough food to feed the family or small community running it. All the food grown is intended for consumption purposes as opposed to market sale or trade. As even if they wanted to trade their equipment and transport methods would be
Like most farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, this Cameroonian man cultivates at the subsistence level. lacking modern technology such as cold chains.

The United Nations is an organisation which brings together a combination most of the countries in the world who work together to promote economic growth, security and peacekeeping. One of the major ways the UN has helped improve the issue is by setting aside $100 million from a fund, by which $92 million was already used to support issues such as agriculture and health in poor countries. Furthermore in 2010 and 2011, the earthquake disasters that happened in Haiti and Japan, destroyed infrastructures and tore apart the lives of many residents. In those circumstances, UN have stepped in and provided the residents in the devastating areas with aid in food supplies and other necessities. But the World Food program is not only helpful when natural disasters happen but it also helps stabilize the food security generally. Right now, the UN is trying to expand the spectrum of its World Food Program with the support of many countries in the world.

Is it possible for the the world to create more farms in order to produce more food for the future?

According to research there is almost no more land available for agricultural expansion. However, it is possible to increase yield by expanding cropland and destroying natural habitats, to potentially create new farms. Due to this ecosystems are ruined, mainly because ground cover and animals habitats are lost. An example is felling tropical forests, which is where the much of the new farmland comes from. Furthermore destroying ecosystems has been known to increase global warming, because of the the rising amount of carbon dioxide released in the air. Trees are natural ‘carbon sinks’, which conserves the harmful gas from increasing the temperature in the atmosphere. Once tress are cut down, they are no longer alive and do not have the ability to preserve more carbon than they release, as
Felled trees at the Little Ouse Headwaters Project they did when they were living. Prince Charles once said “Forests are the worlds air-conditioning system—the lungs of the planet— and we are on the verge of switching it off.”
Northern Australia is able to develop its extensive, empty and wide land to improve agriculture, in order to trade and export goods as the demand for food is only increasing as the population is growing. The resources available that are underused and the Liberal Party are in favor of making use of Northern Australia in regards to things such as agriculture. According to the large number issues associated with growing enough food for the coming generations, innovations are crucial for finding solutions. One of the major solutions is fish farming also known as aquaculture, is the fastest growing form of food production in the world.

Part B:
A solution: Global Fish Farming

Aquaculture, also known as aqua farming, is the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks and aquatic plants. Aquaculture involves cultivating freshwater and saltwater fish populations under controlled conditions, and can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is the harvesting of wild fish.
Almost all of the seafood eaten worldwide today is farmed. And while aquaculture is often said to be bad and equated with pollution, habitat degradation, and health risks, this explosive growth in fish farming may in fact be the most reassured factor in the world's increasingly troubled food system. “In Farming Fish for the Future, Senior Researcher Brian Halweil illustrates how, if properly guided, fish farming can not only help feed an expanding global population, but also play a role in healing marine ecosystems battered by overfishing.”
Poorly run fish farms can generate coastal pollution in the form of excess feed and manure, and escaped fish and disease originating on farms can devastate wild fisheries. For instance, a fish farm with 200,000 salmon releases nutrients and waste matter roughly equivalent to the raw sewage generated by 20,000 to 60,000 people. Scotland's salmon aquaculture industry is estimated to produce the same amount of nitrogen waste as the untreated sewage of 3.2 million people just over half the country's population.
Cramped farms can also create ill health for fish, costing producers millions of dollars in disease prevention and foregone income. In recent years, shrimp farmers in China have lost $120 million to bacterial fish diseases and $420 million to shrimp diseases.
Fish farming has expanded to meet the rising global demand for seafood. On average, each person on the planet is eating four times as much seafood as was consumed in 1950. The average per-capita consumption of farmed seafood has increased nearly 1,000 percent since 1970, in contrast to per-capita meat consumption, which only grew 60 percent.
In 2006, fish farmers raised nearly 70 million tons of seafood worth more than $80 billion-nearly double the volume of a decade earlier. Experts predict that farmed
Fish farm in the US seafood will grow an additional 70 percent by 2030.

How can fish farming be made more sustainable?

Innovative industry practices are most important, but a shift toward sustainable fish farming will also require a fundamental change in public attitudes. This includes a willingness to prioritize fish that are lower on the food chain, such as shellfish and tilapia.

The need for more sustainable fish farming is crucial, according to the report. Farmed seafood provides 42 percent of the world's seafood supply, and is on target to exceed half in the next decade, yet there are no widely accepted standards for what constitutes good fish farming. By comparison, the organic food industry has strong international and national standards, even though it makes up just 3 to 5 percent of the world's food supply.

Fish are highly efficient converters of feed into body mass; mostly nutritious protein. Fish also provide many vitamins and minerals in easily assimilated forms. Oily fish such as Atlantic salmon additionally are rich in the polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA known to be beneficial for health. These come from marine raw materials, fishmeal and fish oil, in the diet of many aquaculture species. Therefore aquaculture can be farmed easily while providing great nutrition for the growing

population.