BACKGROUND Global aquaculture production has increased continuously over the last five decades, and particularly in China. Its aquaculture has become the fastest growing and most efficient agri-sector, with production accounting for more than 70% of the world's aquaculture output. In the new century, with serious challenges regarding population, resources and the environment, China has been wor...

This paper questions the definition and analysis of sustainable wellfare indicators. We first present the context and issues of such matter. Then, we compare HyperAtlas, a generic tool for multiscalar territorial analysis that we have developed, with the existing softwares that deal with spatial analysis and, among them, some that specifically address wellfare indicators. Therefore, we identify...

To be sustainable, farmed fish should environmentally suitable, biologically ideal, socially acceptable and economically viable. As these sustainability indicators (SIs) strongly influence consumers’ purchase intent, farms report them as a balanced source of information. However, in the literature, little attention has been paid to biological assessing aquaculture sustainability, nor extent SIs...

SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture Tiny microbes, big yields: enhancing food crop production with biological solutions P. Trivedi, P. M. Schenks, M. D. Wallenstein and B. K. Singh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999 Increased nutritional value in food crops N. Goicoechea and M. C. An...

Shrimp aquaculture in Vietnam is in the process of being transformed into a major industry around the intensification of the production system. The experiences of other countries in the region, especially in Thailand where high input production systems dominate, suggests that now is a critical time for intervention to redirect industry into pathways that are more sustainable ecologically, socia...

UNLABELLED Of 33 phages isolated from various shrimp farms in Kerala, India, six were segregated to have broad spectrum lytic efficiency towards 87 isolates of Vibrio harveyi with cross-infecting potential to a few other important aquaculture pathogens. They were further tested on beneficial aquaculture micro-organisms such as probiotics and nitrifying bacterial consortia and proved to be nonin...

A total of 70%, of the world's conventional commercial fish species are now fully exploited, overexploited, depleted or recovering from depletion. This dramatic crash in the capture world fisheries production has led to problems in foods distribution, balance of payments, employment, and ecological depletion. Public support for breeding programs with terrestrial farm animals and plants in agric...

Aquaculture is currently the fastest growing animal food production sector and will soon supply more than half of the world’s seafood for human consumption. Continued growth in aquaculture production is likely to come from intensification of fish, shellfish, and algae production. Intensification is often accompanied by a range of resource and environmental problems. We review several potential ...

1 Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile, 2 Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 3 Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, Chile, 4 Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias and Facultad de Artes Liberales, Universida...

Semi-structured interviews with 47 key actors were conducted in Swedish water utilities on why Sustainable Development Indicators (SDIs) are or are not used. Important influencing aspects identified included organizational inertia, social capital, the national water sector and authorities. Divergent views of SD and indicators appear to hinder SDI initiatives. Possible explanations are that: (a)...