TY - JOUR
T1 - An overview on the aquaculture development in Colombia
T2 - Current status, opportunities and challenges
AU - Carrera-Quintana, Silvia C.
AU - Gentile, Piergiorgio
AU - Girón-Hernández, Joel
N1 - Funding information:
The authors would like to thank the Universidad Surcolombiana and FCtel SGR for the financial support for the PhD studentship of Silvia C. Carrera-Quintana (award number: Conv1-2244. 2019-2020).
PY - 2022/12/15
Y1 - 2022/12/15
N2 - Colombia due to its geographical location is provided with different climatic zones, that are suitable for continental and marine aquaculture of a wide range of species with a high possibility of commercialisation. Currently, the production comes mainly from ponds and floating cage aquaculture systems, supplying more than 90% of the freshwater and saltwater organisms consumed in the country, where the production is based on tilapia, trout, cachama and shrimp. This review aims to provide information of the current aquaculture value chain and development in Colombia by describing the current production systems and highlighting their limitations that make difficult to achieve high efficiency combined with necessary sustainability. Colombia has all the potential to develop tropical aquaculture, which should focus on native fish breeding, genetic improvement, high-tech aquaculture systems, agro-industrial and fish biomass development valorisation. Future development trends and perspectives are also analysed in this review.
AB - Colombia due to its geographical location is provided with different climatic zones, that are suitable for continental and marine aquaculture of a wide range of species with a high possibility of commercialisation. Currently, the production comes mainly from ponds and floating cage aquaculture systems, supplying more than 90% of the freshwater and saltwater organisms consumed in the country, where the production is based on tilapia, trout, cachama and shrimp. This review aims to provide information of the current aquaculture value chain and development in Colombia by describing the current production systems and highlighting their limitations that make difficult to achieve high efficiency combined with necessary sustainability. Colombia has all the potential to develop tropical aquaculture, which should focus on native fish breeding, genetic improvement, high-tech aquaculture systems, agro-industrial and fish biomass development valorisation. Future development trends and perspectives are also analysed in this review.
KW - Tilapia
KW - Shrimp
KW - Production systems
KW - Fish disease
KW - Cachama
KW - Aquaculture
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85134383695&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2022.738583
DO - 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2022.738583
M3 - Review article
SN - 0044-8486
VL - 561
JO - Aquaculture
JF - Aquaculture
M1 - 738583
ER -
