46 MARCH 2018 • WORLD AQUACULTURE • WWW.WAS.ORG been of increasing interest to aquaculturists and conservation biologists because of its potential to decrease pressures on wild populations. This is called wildlife farming. The Wildlife Trade Trade in wildlife is a multibillion dollar industry that has had a significant impact on global biodiversity. It involves the global exchange of animals and plants (or products derived from them), driven by the economic and social need for Aquaculture can have both positive and negative impacts on wild populations. It can reduce pressure on overexploited wild stocks and boost depleted stocks. However, negative ecological impacts are numerous (e.g., eutrophication due to effluents and excess feeds, transmission of diseases and proliferation of invasive species), with the harvest of wild fish for production of fishmeal being of particular concern. The commercial domestication and breeding of wildlife for trade has Farming for the Future: Exploring the Potential of Aquaculture as Wildlife Farming Ronald Allan L. Cruz, Vikas Kumar and Janice A. Ragaza Tiger-tail seahorse Hippocampus comes culture at the South East Asian Fisheries Development Center in Tigbauan, Iloilo, Philippines aims to rehabilitate depleted stocks in the wild. Photo: Janice A. Ragaza. A yellow seahorse Hippocampus kuda rests on an artificial coral head at a public aquarium in Manila, Philippines. Advances in ornamental marine fishkeeping have allowed aquarists to keep and breed seahorses. Photo: Gregg Yan. A vendor shows off dried thorny seahorses Hippocampus histrix at a seaside market in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, Philippines. Photo: Gregg Yan.
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