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Prospects of Low Trophic Marine Aquaculture Contributing to Food Security in a Net Zero-Carbon World
To limit compromising the integrity of the planet, a shift is needed towards food production with low environmental impacts and low carbon footprint. How to put such transformative change towards sustainable food production whilst ensuring food...
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Aquaculture policy: designing licenses for environmental regulation
In this article, the authors investigate three different environmental regulations, all which aim to promote the development of more environmentally friendly production technologies to curb the negative environmental impacts of salmon aquaculture...
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Ecosystem Services for Supporting Coastal and Marine Resources Management, an Example from the Adriatic Sea (Central Mediterranean Sea)
Ecosystem Services (ESs) assessment is increasingly being considered as the constitutive metric to embrace the social, ecological, and economic spheres. Spatially explicit ES assessments can integrate and standardize different types of information...
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A Global Overview of Aquaculture Food Production with a Focus on the Activity’s Development in Transitional Systems—The Case Study of a South European Country (Portugal)
World aquaculture food production rises every year, amounting, by 2018, to another all-time record of 82.1 million tonnes of farmed seafood, with Asia leading global production. In Europe, although coastal countries present historical fishing habits...
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The stakeholder's perception of socio-economic impacts generated by COVID-19 pandemic within the Italian aquaculture systems
From the beginning of March 2020 and for the following two and half months, many European countries comprising Italy have been forced into an unprecedented lockdown, allowing only the opening of essential economic activities needed to address the...
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Development of a webGIS Application to Assess Conflicting Activities in the Framework of Marine Spatial Planning
Marine spatial planning (MSP) has been established as the appropriate policy framework to study and resolve conflicts that arise among various activities. A pre-requisite for the successful implementation of MSP is the availability of efficient tools...
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Potential for Coastal and Offshore Aquaculture in Portugal: Insights from Physico-Chemical and Oceanographic Conditions
Physico-chemical and biological parameters along the Portuguese coast were analyzed to evaluate the potential to produce aquatic species of economic interest. Water samples were collected in 2018 and 2019 in five different areas of the Portuguese...
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The role of community and company identities in the social license to operate for fin-fish farming
Scotland is currently one of the major aquaculture producers of Atlantic salmon. However, alongside its rapid growth over the last two decades, advocacy and conservation groups have initiated petitions, campaigns, and legal challenges, resulting in a...
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Mapping the spatial distribution of global mariculture production
Mariculture (marine and brackish water aquaculture) has grown rapidly over the past 20 years, yet publicly-available information on the location of mariculture production is sparse. Identifying where mariculture production occurs remains a major...
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The power of genetics: Past and future contribution of balanced genetic selection to sustainable growth and productivity of the Norwegian Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) industry
In less than 50 years Atlantic salmon farming has become a major industry in Norway, and several attempts at predicting future growth have been made. In all food production, genetics has played an important role in production optimisation and...