Shellfish farming contributes to nutrient removal in coastal and estuarine systems, as bivalves incorporate nutrients into their tissues shells, which is removed from the marine system on harvest. Fourteen locations around UK were surveyed explore geographic variation carbon, nitrogen phosphorus content of tissue shell blue mussels. Phosphorus had a significant negative relationship with mean a...

Implementation of effective policy instruments to reduce emissions from non-point agricultural sources has been challenging. Mussel farming the potential mitigate diffuse nitrogen losses production, and a Water Quality Trading Market (WQTM) between mussel farmers could potentially be an efficient mechanism. We simulate hypothetical WQTM in catchment northern Denmark using relatively new approac...

The economic importance that multiculture is conquering in Santa Catarina State (South of Brazil) explains the crescent search for new coastal sites for farming. Physiological and biochemical studies of the mussel Perna perna are important to the establishment of methodologies for program assessment and environmental monitoring, allowing to infer about site quality and possible influences of xe...

Mussel farming influences benthic environments by organic loading and the addition of physical structure within aquaculture leases. This study evaluated near-field (distance to mussel structures, line-scale) bay-scale (inside vs. outside a blue mussel, Mytilius edulis , farm) effects an offshore farm in Îles de la Madeleine (Canada) on epibenthic macrofaunal communities. Benthic communities wer...

A simulation of phytoplankton dynamics in the coastal shellfish farming site Mar Piccolo Taranto (Ionian, Mediterranean Sea) is here reported. This an element a greater ecological model produced taking into account System Approach Framework. The represents refinement previous tool aimed to better understand complex mosaic ecosystem functioning by providing additional information support mussel ...

We compared density and morphology of wild mussels Mytilus trossulus growing naturally on shellfish farming structures to that of mussels from nearby intertidal areas, and considered the relevance to molluscivorous sea ducks. Mussel density on aquaculture structures greatly exceeded that of intertidal areas and farm mussels were larger, had lower shell mass, and had weaker byssal attachments. D...

Mussel farm product quality remains a challenging problem for operational marine science. In an operational scenario, the model chain, orchestrated in a workflow fashion, produces a huge amount of predicted spatially-referenced (big) data. These workflow components have been integrated into the Framework to Advance Climate, Economic, and Impact Investigations with Information Technology (FACEIT...