Global aquaculture production has expanded at an average annual rate of 6.2% during 2000-2012, with world aquaculture production of 66.7 million tons in 2012, outpacing world population growth rate of 1.6%. According to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), aquaculture is estimated to supply 62% of the world’s fish for human consumption by 2030. However, aquaculture produces huge volumes of ...

Thomas W. Pike*, Bjørn Bjerkeng, Jonathan D. Blount, Jan Lindström and Neil B. Metcalfe Division of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biomedical & Life Sciences, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK; Nofima Marine AS (formerly Akvaforsk, Institute of Aquaculture Research AS), N-6600 Sunndalsøra, Norway; and Centre for Ecology and Conservation, School of Bi...

Hybridization between invasive and native species accounts among the major and pernicious threats to biodiversity. The Mozambique tilapia Oreochromis mossambicus, a widely used freshwater aquaculture species, is especially imperiled by this phenomenon since it is recognized by the IUCN as an endangered taxon due to genetic admixture with O. niloticus an invasive congeneric species. The Lower Li...

It is widely accepted that if well managed, the marine aquarium trade could provide socio-economic stability to local communities while incentivising the maintenance of coral reefs. However, the trade has also been implicated as having potentially widespread environmental impacts that has in part driven developments in aquaculture to relieve wild collection pressures. This study investigates th...

Aquaculture is literarily and traditionally recognised as a collection of “farming finfish, shellfish aquatic plants,” or “the raising water animals such fish for food, the growing plants in food” (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/aquaculture). In some agencies, aquaculture has been defined “breeding, rearing, harvesting fish, shellfish, algae, other organisms all types envir...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Sustainable aquaculture Ecosystem approach to aquaculture (EAA) Ecological–economic modelling Integrated coastal management (ICM) MARKET model This paper presents a Modeling Approach to Resource economics decision-maKing in EcoaquaculTure (MARKET model). The MARKET model was developed as a scenario-testing tool to provide insights on the ecological and economic i...

Genetic resources are the building blocks for aquaculture breeding programs, biotechnology and conservation. The Convention on Biological Diversity Nagoya Protocol international frameworks access benefit sharing (ABS) concerning: (a) collection use of genetic associated traditional knowledge; (b) benefits their with provider. ABS laws in African countries increasingly apply to knowledge used th...