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Founded
in 2001, GeneSeas
Biotecnologia e Desenvolvimento Sustentável
is a company engaged in fingerling production,
growout, processing and distribution
of farm-raised fish.
GeneSeas
founders strongly believe that Aquaculture
is a fast-growing industry that may
soon become one of the major activities
within agribusiness worldwide.
Under
the perspective of Aquaculture, Brazil
is a unique country. Among several competitive
advantages, it has superb climate conditions
for fish raising, 8,000 kilometers of
coastline, and concentrates over 15%
of the world’s fresh water deposits.
In the whole world, over 100 million
people make their living on fishery-related
economic activities, contributing with
over US$ 50 billion to the international
trade.
In
the last two decades, men have taken
the exploiting of living organisms in
oceans and inland waters to an extreme,
unsustainable situation. The stocks
of many important specimens such as
certain Tuna and crustaceans have been
seriously damaged.
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Aquaculture
vs.
Commercial Fishing
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1990
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1999
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| World
production of fisheries |
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99
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100%
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126
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100%
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| Commecial
Fishing |
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87
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87%
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93
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74%
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| Aquaculture |
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13
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13%
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33
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26%
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Between
1990 and 1999, the global production
of fisheries increased 27%. Out of this,
aquaculture products supplied 74%. In
1999, aquaculture accounted for 26%
of the world’s production of fisheries
(13% in 1990).
Developed under sustainable methods,
Aquaculture proves the only solution
to supply the ever-increasing world
consumption of fisheries, and, therefore
avoid the collapse of the over-exploited
natural stocks of important fish species.
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