An overview on the aquaculture development in Colombia: Current status, opportunities and challenges

Carrera-Quintana, Silvia C., Gentile, Piergiorgio and Girón-Hernández, Joel (2022) An overview on the aquaculture development in Colombia: Current status, opportunities and challenges. Aquaculture, 561. p. 738583. ISSN 0044-8486

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2022.738583

Abstract

Colombia due to its geographical location is provided with different climatic zones, that are suitable for continental and marine aquaculture of a wide range of species with a high possibility of commercialisation. Currently, the production comes mainly from ponds and floating cage aquaculture systems, supplying more than 90% of the freshwater and saltwater organisms consumed in the country, where the production is based on tilapia, trout, cachama and shrimp. This review aims to provide information of the current aquaculture value chain and development in Colombia by describing the current production systems and highlighting their limitations that make difficult to achieve high efficiency combined with necessary sustainability. Colombia has all the potential to develop tropical aquaculture, which should focus on native fish breeding, genetic improvement, high-tech aquaculture systems, agro-industrial and fish biomass development valorisation. Future development trends and perspectives are also analysed in this review.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Funding information: The authors would like to thank the Universidad Surcolombiana and FCtel SGR for the financial support for the PhD studentship of Silvia C. Carrera-Quintana (award number: Conv1-2244. 2019-2020).
Uncontrolled Keywords: Tilapia, Shrimp, Production systems, Fish disease, Cachama, Aquaculture
Subjects: C200 Botany
C900 Others in Biological Sciences
Department: Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Applied Sciences
Depositing User: Rachel Branson
Date Deposited: 13 Jul 2022 08:46
Last Modified: 06 Jul 2024 03:30
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/49540

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