Chapter 20
Aquaculture in the Alboran Sea
Aurelio Ortega, Juana Cano-Pérez, Hassan Nhhala, Mohamed Id Halla,
M. Hichem Kara, Fernando de la Gándara, Jesus Cerezo-Valverde,
Jose Pedro Cañavate, Victor Fernández Pasquier,
Mercedes González-Wangüemert, and Edurne Blanco
20.1 Introduction
Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms. Although it started hundreds of
years ago, its boom began in the second half of the twentieth century. The annual
production of aquaculture was less than 1 million tonnes in 1950 and 20 million
A. Ortega (*) · F. de la Gándara · E. Blanco
Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Murcia, Mazarrón, Spain
e-mail: aurelio.ortega@ieo.es; fernando.delagandara@ieo.es; edurne.blanco@ieo.es
J. Cano-Pérez
Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, Fuengirola (Málaga), Spain
H. Nhhala
Centre Aquacole, Institut National de Recherche Halieutique, M’diq, Morocco
M. I. Halla
Département Océanographie et Aquaculture, Institut National de Recherche Halieutique,
Casablanca, Morocco
M. H. Kara
Marine Bioresources Laboratory. Aquaculture team. Annaba University, Annaba, Algeria
J. Cerezo-Valverde
Instituto Murciano de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario, Murcia, Spain
J. P. Cañavate
IFAPA Centro El Toruño, Andalusia Research and Training Institute for Fisheries and
Agriculture, Puerto de Santa María, Spain
e-mail: Josep.canavate@juntadeandalucia.es
V. Fernández Pasquier
Motril, Spain
e-mail: vpasquier7@gmail.com
M. González-Wangüemert
Guatizamar, Chiclana, Spain
e-mail: mercedes@guatizamar.com
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J. C. Báez et al. (eds.), Alboran Sea - Ecosystems and Marine Resources,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65516-7_20
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Aquaculture in the Alboran Sea
Aurelio Ortega, Juana Cano-Pérez, Hassan Nhhala, Mohamed Id Halla,
M. Hichem Kara, Fernando de la Gándara, Jesus Cerezo-Valverde,
Jose Pedro Cañavate, Victor Fernández Pasquier,
Mercedes González-Wangüemert, and Edurne Blanco
20.1 Introduction
Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms. Although it started hundreds of
years ago, its boom began in the second half of the twentieth century. The annual
production of aquaculture was less than 1 million tonnes in 1950 and 20 million
A. Ortega (*) · F. de la Gándara · E. Blanco
Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Murcia, Mazarrón, Spain
e-mail: aurelio.ortega@ieo.es; fernando.delagandara@ieo.es; edurne.blanco@ieo.es
J. Cano-Pérez
Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, Fuengirola (Málaga), Spain
H. Nhhala
Centre Aquacole, Institut National de Recherche Halieutique, M’diq, Morocco
M. I. Halla
Département Océanographie et Aquaculture, Institut National de Recherche Halieutique,
Casablanca, Morocco
M. H. Kara
Marine Bioresources Laboratory. Aquaculture team. Annaba University, Annaba, Algeria
J. Cerezo-Valverde
Instituto Murciano de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario, Murcia, Spain
J. P. Cañavate
IFAPA Centro El Toruño, Andalusia Research and Training Institute for Fisheries and
Agriculture, Puerto de Santa María, Spain
e-mail: Josep.canavate@juntadeandalucia.es
V. Fernández Pasquier
Motril, Spain
e-mail: vpasquier7@gmail.com
M. González-Wangüemert
Guatizamar, Chiclana, Spain
e-mail: mercedes@guatizamar.com
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
J. C. Báez et al. (eds.), Alboran Sea - Ecosystems and Marine Resources,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65516-7_20
659