DEFINITION AND HISTORY

DEFINITION

Aquaculture

It is the production of aquatic organisms by humans.

This term applies to all groups of living beings of aquatic origin, that is, fish, crustaceans, molluscs, macroalgae and microalgae, among others.

HISTORY

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This human activity dates back a few millennia ago with known records of production from the Chinese region to the ancient Egyptian civilization. Modern aquaculture production in Portugal began in the 1960s, with the production of Rainbow Trout on the bank of the Coura River, near Paredes de Coura. It was only at the end of the 1980s that sea bream and sea bass began to be produced on extensive and semi-intensive farms.

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