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Since our goal for aquaculture is to partially replace wild fish as a food source with farmed fish, we focused primarily on fish farming, rather than all forms of raising aquatic organisms. For the purposes of this plan, we looked at two general types of fish farming, cage farming and intensive farming. The first type, cage farming, which uses cages in large bodies of water, relinquishing control over water quality for a cheaper, simpler system. The second type, intensive, uses closed or nearly closed-loop water filtering systems, so that the fish do not interact with any natural environments.
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