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Study: US federal investments in fish farming small — but return is ‘significant’

A new study published by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future in the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Environmental Health and Engineering found that while US federal investments in aquaculture account for a small fraction of all government-funded research spending, they result in a “significant return on investment in terms of production value.”

The study found US federal agencies awarded nearly $1 billion (€891.9 million) in grants for aquaculture research in the past 25 years — but that these grants had an estimated 37-fold return on investment since 2000…

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