Biotecnología marina y acuicultura

Abstract

As a result of overfishing and the escalating cost of fishing, fisheries are unable to provide all the marine products that the world market demands. This shortfall is being met by aquaculture. After Japan and Norway, Spain is one of the world’s leading consumers of fish and seafood. To reduce the losses from disease, increase growth and reproduction rates and juveniles survival… Biotechnology can help achieve these goals. However, there is more than food production in the use of Biotechnology in the marine world. Generation of biodiesel, medicines or new materials have their roots on the application of biotechnology to the marine world.