Aquaculture has been identified as a major global source of anti-microbial resistance (AMR), an issue of particular concern in low- to middle-income countries (LMIC) in Africa and South Asia.
The paper, “Aquaculture at the crossroads of global warming and antimicrobial resistance,” was published in Nature in April. In the paper, its authors acknowledged that more farmed fish is needed to feed a growing global human population and to help meet the 2030 United Nations’ Agenda of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Fish and seafood consumption is expected to increase by 27 percent by 2030, the researchers forecasted, with the aquaculture sector growing by 62 percent on its own. The paper projected that aquaculture will play an increasingly important role in food security and poverty alleviation. However, researchers warned that in order to achieve the SDGs, better husbandry practices would be necessary to reduce or negate the negative impacts of the increased fish production…
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