 You might have had it grilled steamed or as sushi. There are a number of ways to cook and eat fish But have you ever given a thought to where your fish is from? With billions relying on seafood as a key source of protein recent decades have seen demand skyrocket and if you've ever had fish chances are you've had catch caught from aquacultures. In In fact farmed fish is already responsible for around half of global seafood consumption But what exactly is aquaculture and what does it look like? We've traveled to the Canary Islands to deep dive beneath its surface The fish can be seen a little bit what we call the barandilla, which is the net This is PES material polyester, everything is mounted on polyester. It has this installation of marine We have around 35 meters of depth The divers are designed so that you introduce animals 280,000 animals, 280, 300,000 animals that can reach the commercial size without exceeding this 25-kilometer cube In the whole diet of fish, a very important part of the question is very good because there is always a lot of picaresca, with what we give to the fish and also the food of the fish is basically fish oil and fish-extrusioned flour I think that eating these fish daily I could eat it with or with another person without any kind of problem Even more with some levels of demand and brutal control It is essential to have a quality and safe product. The first thing is food When you feed the fish, they do their little things And so that you don't have to have those small particles of thought, with the depositions of the fish, there has to be a minimum margin between the bottom and the tail, so that you don't have to have these particles at the bottom So when you design the installation, you take into account the depth Despite what the name suggests, aquaculture can also be found on land We joined the Spanish Institute of Oceanography to hear them explain how they take care of their fish in their inland facilities This is one of the usual operations in any marine cultivation installation These are anesthetized in anesthetic products, so that they allow the management of the fish with the least suffering and the least possible risk for the animals We obtain, in that way, biometric data that allows us to estimate their growth But in the Canaries, aquaculture not only includes fish, but also other aquatic animals like octopus We have proof that they don't have wounds, that they are in good condition and we can also see a little bit of sex, to know what sex is The use of refuges in tanks is very important to reduce the stress of the animals If we don't place refuges, the animals get stressed, so they end up sick and dying So it's a very important element It has a high acceptance in the market, and it's self-taught, not in the Canary Islands So we won't be introducing new species for their cultivation With such high demands of fish on a global scale, is aquaculture a sustainable solution? We have never suffered a massive escape, and I hope it will be like that The way of the great study in aquaculture is that They have appeared in very interesting insect sands, they have done studies and rehearsals and they are very correct, but they are not so defined, but they have to go there Of course, yes, under a modest opinion, I think aquaculture is going to be important Because it is a protein that we produce in a cheap protein, it reaches all consumers It is a product that is always in the market, it does not fail at all, with maximum quality and freshness Obviously I see a lot of the future of aquaculture, we just have to see the historical demand of this product year after year, the demand is going up, so it is true that we have to solve some problems at a national level, to consume it with the same product, with other prices For us, as Spanish aquacultures, from the brand that is defending apromar, which is a child of our seas If it is not very difficult to compete with the same product, with other prices that come from other countries So what do you think of aquaculture?