1. Pros and Cons of Aquaculture

2. Pros Meets increasing consumer demand for seafood
Does not contribute to declining wild fish stocks
Independent of fisheries mismanagement
Provides employment

3. Pros, cont’d
Less bykill
Less habitat degradation

4. Cons
Fish escape (disease transmission to wild stock, competition with wild stock, genetics)
Entanglement of wild creatures in aquaculture nets
Uneaten food and feces the sinks below cage can suffocate benthic organisms and change water quality

5. Cons, cont’d
Use of antibiotics may change the bacterial community around the cages
Hard feelings in communities

6. Salmon Cages

7. Fish Diseases
Sea lice

8. Fish Diseases

9. Age determination by rings on fish scales