Aquaculture: insights for a correct integrated management approach of the sector at a region level

The guideline aims at creating a unique and complete document, starting from the selection of the species, the identification of the territory, the explanation of the bureaucratic process to obtain the license in order to increase the international production and to oppose the foreign competition.
Despite the rapid growth of recent years, aquaculture encounters many difficulties due to an increasingly competitive food market, technical problems and high production risk, bureaucratic delays to obtain the planned permits and a defective communication with consumers and the public sector. In order to clarify some of these aspects, Liguria Region issued a specific Regional Law which regulates the activity of mariculture. It performs multiple functions:
- represents a useful reference tool for Municipalities and Port Authorities in the context of reorganization, rationalization and restructuring of ports and Liguria landings;
- constitutes a reference document for potential subjects interested in realizing new aquaculture production realities in Liguria;
- represents a useful cognitive tool for the public sector to learn about currently existing activities in Liguria, information on the health issues regarding aquaculture products, the protection of the environment and the welfare of farmed animals and, more generally, the initiatives of the Liguria Region aimed at the discipline and control of this specific productive sector.