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Status, challenges and trends of aquaculture in Singapore
- Source :
- Aquaculture. 533:736210
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2021.
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Abstract
- Singapore is a small island country with limited land and sea space for aquaculture. Foodfish production in Singapore is mainly from cage aquaculture in sea and supplied about 10% of total fish consumed. The major cultured species are Asian seabass, milk fish, grey mullet, snappers, golden pompanos, hybrid groupers and shrimps. Although small scale of its aquaculture, constrained by limited available land and coastal areas and high cost for aquaculture, the industry is thriving and transferring from low-tech to high-tech. With the strong support of the government for food security, aquaculture R&D are geared towards developing novel hatchery technologies, marker-assisted and genomic selection to accelerate genetic improvement, the establishment of high-tech aquaculture farms and ensuring biosecurity. Singapore is fast becoming global aquaculture hotspot. In this review, we summarized the status of Singapore's aquaculture production, R&D, training and education and its challenges, and suggested some ideas on the future development of Singapore's aquaculture. Singapore is well-positioned to serve as a R&D and education hub for tropical aquaculture. Its R & D on aquaculture should focus on fish reproduction, genetic improvement and high-tech aquaculture systems to improve local fish production and to supply superior fry for culture in other countries.
- Subjects :
- 0303 health sciences
Food security
business.industry
Fish farming
Biosecurity
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
Aquatic Science
Biology
Hatchery
Fishery
03 medical and health sciences
Aquaculture
040102 fisheries
0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
Asian seabass
business
Cage aquaculture
030304 developmental biology
Grey mullet
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00448486
- Volume :
- 533
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Aquaculture
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........6d924e71e59af7971c408230f53bb393