ABSTRACT
Aquaculture as a food production technique is new to Latin America. Aquaculture plays a relatively limited role in gross national production in all Latin American countries, and the region contributed only a tiny proportion - 0.7 to 1.0 percent - of total world production of cultivated fish in 1975. Aquaculture can be presented to potential participants in an advantageous way, but this has not been attempted in very many places in Latin America. Latin America has developed few aquaculture production systems to date, but the region should contribute significantly to future world production. A number of symposia and conferences on Latin American aquaculture, intended to help accelerate the development process. The profits from native species may not be as immediate or as spectacular, but in the long term, such developments will promote a more coherent policy toward natural resource exploitation.
