The use of environmental and sustainable indicators of global organizations has greater advantages than those of national initiatives or those developed by researchers in said subject, due to the fact that they have a much broader scope for sustainability, have been applied in a systematic manner and therefore have greater comparability and reliability. The environmental indicators are construc...

Aquaculture is the fastest growing food production industry globally and considered to have greatest potential meet demand for seafood being a solution overfishing. Despite benefits of aquaculture, rapid growth intensification (so-called conventional aquaculture) has raised concerns about safety, fish welfare, environmental social issues stemming from tragedy commons. These need be addressed en...

Sustainably feeding the world’s growing population represents one of our most significant challenges. Aquaculture is well positioned to make contributions towards this challenge. Yet, the translation of aquaculture production innovations into benefits for rural communities is constrained by a limited understanding of the social dynamics that influence the adoption of new agricultural practices....

We provide an overview of selected recent operational applications of satellite remote sensing and marine Geographic Information Systems (GIS) procedures to the practice of sustainable aquaculture in southern Hokkaido, Japan, focusing mainly on kelp and scallop aquaculture. We also developed a suitable aquaculture site-selection model (SASSM) for suspension culture of Gagome (a kelp species) in...

Aquaculture activities are embedded in complex social-ecological systems. However, aquaculture development decisions have tended to be driven by revenue generation, failing to account for interactions with the environment and the full value of the benefits derived from services provided by local ecosystems. Trade-offs resulting from changes in ecosystem services provision and associated impacts...

The sustainability of aquaculture is a complex issue that can be hard to assess and communicate. Communicating it the general public in many ways an even bigger challenge than communicating experts on or aquaculture. public's perception status challenges for important development industry society at large, through its roles both as consumers electorate, generally providing denying “social licen...

Lipids are the predominant source of energy for fish. The mechanisms by which fish allocate energy from lipids, for metabolism, development, growth and reproduction are critical for understanding key life history strategies and transitions. Currently, the major lipid component in aquaculture diets is fish oil (FO), derived from wild capture fisheries that are exploited at their maximum sustaina...

This study deals with prioritization of sustainable supply chin measurement indicators which are calculated by using Chang’s extent method of Fuzzy AHP. Within the model of Fuzzy AHP, main attributes, sub attributes and indicators are defined. The weights of them are calculated from the answers of questionnaire, which is formed for pair-wise comparison of attributes and indicators. The results ...

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,...

These proceedings contain the manuscripts from the Second International Congress on Seafood Technology on Sustainable, Innovative and Healthy Seafood held in Anchorage, the United States of America from 10 to 13 May 2010. The University of Alaska organized the meeting in collaboration with the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department. The congress reviewed developments related to: • internation...