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Study backs huge untapped potential of marine finfish farming in an era of climate change

Choosing the right species and locations to farm will allow farming of marine finfish to thrive, even in an period of changing ocean temperatures, oxygen levels and salinities.

So argues an international collaboration of researchers, in a new paper, published in the journal Nature, who look at the potential of a warming ocean to satisfy the growing global appetite.

“Climate change will challenge the ability for the ocean to meet the seafood demands of a growing population,” said Christopher Free, a researcher at the UC Santa Barbara and lead author of the paper, in a press release. “However the ocean could produce more food than today through swift and ambitious actions.”…

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