SUSTAINABLE CHANNEL CATFISH FARMING: LOW MANAGEMENT PRODUCTION THROUGH MODIFIED STOCKING AND FEEDING PRACTICES

Authors

William A. Wurts, Kentucky State University, Research and Education Center, P.O. Box 469, Princeton, KY
Forrest Wynne, Kentucky State University, Cooperative Extension, P.O. Box 3327, West Somerset, KY

Date of this Version

June 1996

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in W. Daniel Edge, ed. Proceedings of the 8th National Extension Wildlife and Fisheries Specialists Workshop: Educational Challenges for the 21st Century. [1996] Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University, 1998.

Abstract

Sustainability has become the recent "buzz-word" in aquaculture and agriculture. As Claude Boyd indicated in San Diego (Aquaculture '95), aquaculture is not truly sustainable because aquaculture relies on external feed, chemical, and energy inputs. The United States Farm Bill of 1990 more narrowly defined the key components of sustainability as: maintaining profitability, supplying food and fiber needs, using non-renewable resources efficiently, enhancing renewable resources, and improving the quality of life in rural areas.