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Dietary Shifts And The Need For Increased Sustainability Approaches In The Global Aquaculture Seafood System, Darien D. Mizuta
Dietary Shifts And The Need For Increased Sustainability Approaches In The Global Aquaculture Seafood System, Darien D. Mizuta
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Recent shifts in the global dietary preferences have indicated the fast-growing choice for plant-based, or meat-reduced diets. Among the motivations for such choices, which are increasingly advocated by nations and environmental institutions, is the major concern with global environmental sustainability and impacts of food production systems. Incontestably, the animal food source industry is extremely diverse, and seafood production through the aquaculture value chain remains unfamiliar to key stakeholders possibly leading to an uncomprehensive view and often biased perception of the farming industry within the environmental context. Accordingly, I discuss the importance of seafood production systems, such as the fastest seafood …
Environmental Change In The Coastal Environment: Challenges For The Selection And Propagation Of Filter Feeding Species In Aquaculture, Stock Enhancement And Environmental Rehabilitation, Roger L. Mann
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Selection of species for aquaculture, fishery stock enhancement and environmental rehabilitation or restoration in the coastal zone requires consideration of the fact that species have evolved over geological time whereas changes in the coastal environment have occurred predominantly over recent historical time, often with the largest changes occurring within the past decades of human activity. The evolutionary issue is particularly noted with filter feeding molluscs, where extant species supporting both major natural fisheries and aquaculture have ancient lineages and evolved in environments that may have differed considerably from the locally turbid, nutrient enriched, disturbed (through watershed change and local activity) …
Linking Watershed Loading And Basin-Level Carrying Capacity Models To Evaluate The Effects Of Land Use On Primary Production And Shellfish Aquaculture, Mark Luckenbach, Harry V. Wang
Linking Watershed Loading And Basin-Level Carrying Capacity Models To Evaluate The Effects Of Land Use On Primary Production And Shellfish Aquaculture, Mark Luckenbach, Harry V. Wang
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Aquaculture production of hard clams, Mercenaria mercenaria, in the lower Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, U.S.A., has increased dramatically within the last decade. In recent years concern has been raised that some growing areas may be approaching the exploitation carrying capacity for clam production. Preliminary calculations indicate that large-scale intensive clam aquaculture may be controlling nutrient and phytoplankton dynamics in this system. To date, carrying capacity models have not been applied to this system, but we are in the process of building models for that purpose. Moreover changing land use in the watersheds surrounding the clam-producing areas raises the need for an …