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What is ocean ranching? How are aqua-cowboys related to such activities?

  • UPSC 2023
  • Oceanography

Ocean ranching (also called sea ranching) is a hybrid marine food-production system in which juvenile fish — most classically anadromous species like salmon — are hatched and reared in a controlled hatchery, then released into the open ocean to grow to maturity on naturally occurring food, before being harvested when they return to coastal waters…

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