Real and perceived aquaculture environmental impacts that must be considered prior to expansion to open ocean locations include: 1) benthic carbon loading, 2) water column nutrification, 3) stimulation of harmful algal blooms, and 4) escapement and implications to wild populations. A simulation model was developed for predicting the benthic impacts from offshore cage culture. The model simulate...

Since its inception, aquaculture has developed into a major industrial complex, a major component of which is cage culture. Along with the growth, however, problems arose. Translocations of animals and diseases, as well as concerns over environmental effects limited the growth of the industry. The concept of fish health management whereby the host, pathogen, and environment are proactively mana...

The rapid growth of aquaculture has provided opportunities for the emergence of diseases. Programs designed to monitor these pathogens are useful for analysis of regional variation and trends, provided methods are standardized. Data from an official monitoring program were used to analyze the emergence of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus in Scottish salmon farms from 1996 to 2001. An annual...

Aquaculture, or the farmed production of fish and shellfish, has grown rapidly, from supplying just 7% for human consumption in 1974 to more than half 2016. This rapid expansion led growth Precision Aquaculture concept that aims exploit data-driven management production, thereby improving farmer's ability monitor, control, document biological processes farms. Fundamental this paradigm is monito...

The concept of multifunctional use of marine offshore areas receives increased significance in the light of sustainable development in heavily used marine areas. Here we defined potential areas in the German EEZ for the co-utilization of offshore wind farms and offshore aquaculture applying integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) approaches. We combined a geographic information system (GIS)...

This paper applies cost-benefit analysis to assess social and private net benefits from rainbow trout European whitefish aquaculture under recirculating system (RAS) marine cage technologies. In addition investment operational costs, we include eutrophication damage nutrients value the fish produced by its producer price. The assessment is made in terms of annualized present benefits. We find t...

A significant problem hindering the emergence or the continued growth of aquaculture in many marine areas is the conflict that arises among it and other ocean uses. We develop a framework to clarify the choice of the optimal scale of aquaculture when that use impacts a commercial fishery. We identify a range of potential impacts, both positive and negative, and analyze how one or more might aff...

KILIAN NEUBERT*, IRFAN YULIANTO, SONJA KLEINERTZ, STEFAN THEISEN, BUDY WIRYAWAN and HARRY W. PALM Aquaculture and Sea-Ranching, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, Justus-vonLiebig-Weg 6, 18059 Rostock, Germany Wildlife Conservation Society-Indonesia Program, Jl. Atletik No. 8, Bogor, Indonesia Marine Fisheries, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Sciences, Bo...

An assessment of the current status of marine anticancer compounds is presented along with a case study on the aquaculture of Lissodendoryx n. sp. 1, a sponge that produces the antimitotic agents halichondrin B and isohomohalichondrin B. The use of polymer therapeutics to enhance the properties of marine natural products is considered.

Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou*, Elena Sarropoulou, Katerina Vasileiadou, Christina Brown, Sarah Faulwetter, Giorgos Kotoulas and Christos D. Arvanitidis 1 Biology Department, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece 2 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Heraklion, Greece 3 Department of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacology, Institute of Biology...