Managing and protecting fish populations is more critical than ever. Aquaculture now supplies nearly half of the world’s farmed and wild fish and the demand continues to surge.

Before the arrival of European immigrants in the United States, forests totaled about 1.05 billion acres, or about 43 percent of the country. Clearing of forest land in the East between 1850 and 1900 averaged 13 square miles every day for 50 years.