Offshore aquaculture: Spatial planning principles for sustainable development

Offshore aquaculture: Spatial planning principles for sustainable development

Marine aquaculture is expanding into deeper offshore environments in response to growing consumer demand for seafood, improved technology, and limited potential to increase wild fisheries catches. Sustainable development of aquaculture will require quantification and minimization of its impacts on other ocean-based activities and the environment through scientifically informed spatial planning....

The role of government decisions on regional development with the approach spatial planning and sustainable development

Power as an institution, governance as structure and spatial organization is considered as an organizational tool in the service of the goals and aspirations of the institutions of power and governance structure. In this framework the spatial organization and geographic environment is a result of social organization (social, economic, political), and its natural and ecological system. Human aut...

Principles of Sustainable Development

Aquaculture in offshore zones.

THE EDITORIAL BY ROSAMOND NAYLOR, “Offshore aquaculture legislation” (8 Sept., p. 1363), suggests that the motivation for moving aquaculture into the open ocean is that “marine f ish farming near the shore is limited by state regulations.” Although unworkable regulations may exist in a few states, in the larger scheme this is irrelevant. Of the offshore aquaculture projects currently under way,...

Cyprus- Offshore Aquaculture Mooring Systems: Current Status and Future Development

Cyprus’ offshore aquaculture industry has promising prospects taking into account that Cyprus is an island. Its production trend is increasing overtaking bigger countries such Greece and Italy. However, current mooring systems seem to be under-performing acting as obstacles for its future development. Furthermore, shallow coastal waters scarcity due to competing industries dictates future devel...