Farming rivers and seas: The twentieth-century spanish aquaculture

From first attempts of oyster culture and the development of mussel raft culture on mediterranean coasts at the first decades of XXth century, aquaculture in Spain grew up through a dramatic increase of mussel production during 1960s and 1970s. Rainbow trout and eventually marine farming of turbot,...

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Main Author: Fernández González, Ángel I.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Spanish
Published: Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia (Editum) 2008
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Online Access:https://revistas.um.es/areas/article/view/118651
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Summary:From first attempts of oyster culture and the development of mussel raft culture on mediterranean coasts at the first decades of XXth century, aquaculture in Spain grew up through a dramatic increase of mussel production during 1960s and 1970s. Rainbow trout and eventually marine farming of turbot, sea bass and sea bream have expanded as well. Desde las iniciativas pioneras en la ostricultura y el desarrollo del cultivo de mejillón en viveros flotantes en las costas mediterráneas en las primeras décadas del siglo XX, la acuicultura española creció intensamente a partir de los 1950 con el cultivo del mejillón en Galicia, luego la trucha, y finalmente la piscicultura marina de rodaballos, doradas y lubinas.