Expanding aquaculture in the Amazon could provide nutritional and economic benefits at a fraction of the environmental cost of cattle grazing, according to a paper in Nature Sustainability from Cornell researchers and colleagues in the U.S. and Brazil. Such expansion could also come with risks, especially the potential introduction of harmful non-native species, the paper finds. Expanding aquaculture in the Amazon could provide nutritional and economic benefits at a fraction of the environmental cost of cattle grazing, according to a paper in Nature Sustainability from Cornell researchers and colleagues in the U.S. and Brazil. Such expansion could also come with risks, especially the potential introduction of harmful non-native species, the paper finds. Ecology Agriculture Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories
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