Increased consumption of seafood products :

To respond to growing needs for protein in many developing countries or to benefit from their outstanding nutritional qualities (omega 3, vitamins, minerals…) seafood product consumption is increasing worldwide. While fishing (just like hunting, once upon a time) can no longer respond to needs. 

Aquaculture as a supplement to fishing :

Carnivorous fish have fish meal included in their feed, the meal is made from tiny pelagic fish not used for human consumption (from Kaushik). Most of the meal producing fisheries are managed through quotas to allow for regeneration of the resource. To contribute to this conservation one of our major research axes is to reduce this particular raw material in our feeds, with a double objective: to maintain performance in farms and finished product quality.

Well organised aquaculture is the most ecological response to the growing needs for seafood or fish products.