Argumentative Essay On Aquaculture - 1210 Words

†¢ Aquaculture is the agri-business of water creatures. According to Wikipedia, it’s a cage-based system that places cages in the water and allows water to flow across. This process helps eliminate unwanted waste such as animal droppings (feces) from seeping into our drinking water or any water that fish may swallow thus may lead to a possible contamination and/or a biohazard. †¢ Aquaculture can also have an impact on water quality and help scientists get a â€Å"good feel† for what the aquatic life is around the Great Lakes area and how healthy the environment is by not just farming the aquatics but by running Biotic Indexes for determining if the Lakes are sustainable for life and human uses. †¢ Aquaculture in the Great Lakes is where most fish†¦show more content†¦Most of Michigan’s fresh water supply is acquired from the Great Lakes themselves, so if more aquaculture would result in an increase in fish and the chances of contamination. †¢ Aquaculture opposers state that this won’t help recycling waste but instead increase it altogether. By increasing the population of fish, an increase in pollution in large bodies of waters will increase significantly and result in more contamination of fresh water. 1.) Are tree-free paper alternatives better than paper made from trees? A.) For †¢ Tree free paper is an ecosystem friendly alternative to that of standard paper. Regular paper is consisted of wood pulp (trees) which is the earth’s sole source of oxygen that all living organisms need to survive. By switching to more less CO2 absorbing materials such as agricultural residues (ex. sugarcanes, husks, straw, fiber crops, and wild plants) this will help keep O2 levels stable and give the world more â€Å"time† to plant more trees which will help increase O2 levels to keep Earth less polluted. †¢ Using standard wood pulp paper requires almost weekly harvesting for paper mills, which requires much labor and cost just to produce a month’s supply of paper. However, with non-wood raw materials just need harvesting once a year. Developing a specific and unique storage capacity requires much energy and resources, which would make many to reconsider the paper making process and leave one thinking; â€Å"is it worth all this effort†? †¢ It