Are we approaching the end of fish? It’s been widely reported that at current fishing levels all commercial stocks of wild-caught fish will have collapsed by 2050. But there’s hope – New Dutch investment fund Aqua-Spark believes sustainable aquaculture will be a major growth industry of the coming decades. It perceives a need for the industry to increase its capacity by 35 percent by 2022, and a global market set to grow from $135 billion annually to $195 billion by 2019 alone. Given the imperative for this to be done in an environmentally sound way, the fund views sustainable aquaculture as a long-term investment, the returns of which will be more than just financial.
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