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Sept 30 - 2024
EN Global
As big supermarkets pursue profits, new research shows growing exploitation of shrimp farmers
NBC Philadelphia
'Labor exploitation in shrimp aquaculture industries is not company, sector, or country-specific,' the report concluded. 'Instead, it is the result of a hidden business model that exploits people for profit.'
By David Rising
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Oct 31 - 2024
EN Asia
Innovative project launched to tackle aquaculture plastic waste in southern Vietnam
Viet Nam News
A groundbreaking initiative to address the growing environmental challenge of plastic waste from aquaculture was officially launched in Soc Trang Province. On 29 October 2024, key stakeholders gathered for the event titled 'Establishing a Sustainable, Efficient, and Scalable System for Collecting and Converting Used Pond Liners in Soc Trang Province'.
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Investigative Journalism
Mar 20 - 2024
EN Asia
India Shrimp Rife with Bondage, Hazards, and Stolen Wages
The Outlaw Ocean Project
Recent research by the U.N., industry groups, unions, and labor lawyers indicates wider concerns tied to the treatment of workers across India’s aquaculture industry, which currently supplies almost 40 percent of the shrimp consumed in the U.S.
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Jan 01 - 2019
EN North America
U.S. Commercial Fisheries and the Seafood Industry Landings and Values, 2019
NOAA
Infographics supporting the annual Fisheries of the United States report, a yearbook of fisheries statistics for the nation providing data on commercial landings and value and recreational catch.
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Research
Dec 10 - 2024
EN Global
Science of the Total Environment
This review provides a critical overview of the sources, incidence, accumulation, effects, and interactions of microplastics (MPs) with other contaminants in the shrimp aquaculture environment, emphasizing this sector's challenges and future implications.
By Federico Páez-Osuna, Gladys Valencia-Castañeda, Daniela Bernot-Simon, Uriel Arreguin-Rebolledo
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News
Nov 01 - 2024
EN North America, Asia
NGOs, wild shrimpers ask US government to investigate Global Seafood Alliance marketing practices
IntraFish
A report authored by the Corporate Accountability Lab earlier this year was critical of the Global Seafood Alliance's Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) scheme. By Rachel Sapin
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Investigative Journalism
Jul 25 - 2023
EN Global
Seafood Is Extremely Vulnerable to Climate Change, Study Finds
Sentient
Over 90 percent of food harvested from marine and freshwater environments is at risk, challenging the idea that “blue food” is more sustainable.
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News
Nov 01 - 2024
EN North America, Asia
Global Seafood Alliance faces formal complaint over BAP certification of Indian shrimp
The Fish Site
The Global Seafood Alliance (GSA) faces a formal complaint, filed with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), requesting action against false or deceptive advertising- or marketing-related activities by the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification scheme.
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Podcast
Sept 26 - 2024
EN Global
How to Maximize Aquaculture: Growing More Seafood Through Science
NOAA Fisheries
Scientists are using an ecosystem approach to aquaculture, growing multiple seafood products together in a sustainable system.
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Research
Oct 16 - 2024
EN Global
A review of the global use of fishmeal and fish oil and the Fish In:Fish Out metric
Science Advances
Aquacultured carnivorous species consume most of the world’s fishmeal and fish oil (FMFO), which itself is primarily derived from small pelagic fish. This has raised concerns about the practice’s impact on wild fish stocks, ecosystems, and coastal communities that rely on these fish. The aquaculture industry claims a decreasing dependence on wild fish, relying on the Fish In:Fish Out (FIFO) metric as a ratio of the quantity of wild fish required for farmed fish production. This is misleading because it usually assumes constant FM or FO yields, inclusion rates and feed conversion ratios, which vary widely. Thus, a constant FIFO value for a given species cannot be assumed. Furthermore, low FIFO values resulting from averaging carnivores and herbivores conceal the high feed requirements of carnivore species. The increasing use of FMFO from by-products does not demonstrate a decreased use of wild fish but rather reflects a growing demand for FMFO, particularly for the fast growing and valuable salmon and shrimp farming industries.
By Patricia Majluf, Kathryn Matthews, Daniel Pauly, Daniel J. Skerritt, Maria Lourdes D. Palomares
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Nov 12 - 2024
EN Global
Social benefits and environmental performance of aquaculture need to improve worldwide
Communications Earth & Environment
As a crucial source of protein for humans, aquaculture provides societal benefits but also poses environmental costs making it pivotal to strike a balance between costs and benefits to ensure aquaculture sustainability. Here we developed a composite sustainability index integrating societal benefits and environmental costs of aquaculture. The results show that two-fifths of the 161 countries achieved a high sustainability score (score > 50) in 2018, indicating a considerable need for improvement in the sustainability of aquaculture worldwide. This was particularly true for Asian countries (average score 45.01 ± 11.44), while European countries outperformed other regions (60.15 ± 13.64). Moreover, a Boosted Regression Tree model revealed that 59.3% of the variance in aquaculture sustainability was supported by eight indicators, including social factors, geographical effects, and aquaculture structures. By focusing on bivalve production and maintaining an optimized choice of fishes and shrimp taxa, the sustainability of global aquaculture could be enhanced.
By Congjun Xu, Guohuan Su, Sébastien Brosse, Kangshun Zhao, Min Zhang & Jun Xu
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Documentary Films
Feb 01 - 2010
EN Europe
How I fell in love with a fish
TED Talks
Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie's honeymoon he's enjoyed since discovering an outrageously delicious fish raised using a revolutionary farming method in Spain.
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Investigative Journalism
Oct 24 - 2024
EN Global
Fish farming was supposed to be sustainable. But there’s a giant catch.
Vox
A groundbreaking study suggests your farmed shrimp and salmon might have a much bigger environmental toll than previously thought.
By Kenny Torrella
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Research
Jul 26 - 2021
EN Global
Changing Matters
The material risks of fish mortality and the use of wild-caught fish in feed for the aquaculture sector.
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Research
Apr 19 - 2016
EN North America
Aquacultures' Effect on the Environment
UMASS Amherst, Debating Science
Aquaculture has a negative effect on the environment through both sediment and nutrient pollution.
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Research
Jan 01 - 2022
EN Africa
Socio-Economic and Biological Impacts of the Fish-Based Feed Industry for Sub-Saharan Africa
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The feed industry serving farmed fish creates a strain on sub-Saharan Africa wild fish stock and the people of the region, refuting the argument that carnivorous fish farming will be the answer to feeding a growing world population.The study identifies a range of actions the fish feed industry can take to minimize the economic, environmental, and health impacts created by this industry.
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Research
Oct 01 - 2015
EN Global
The Four Fish We're Overeating - and What to Eat Instead
TED Talks
The way we fish for popular seafood such as salmon, tuna and shrimp is threatening to ruin our oceans. Paul Greenberg explores the sheer size and irrationality of the seafood economy, and suggests a few specific ways we can change it, to benefit both the natural world and the people who depend on fishing for their livelihoods.
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Research
Oct 16 - 2024
EN Global
Why aquaculture may not conserve wild fish
Science Advances
We review literature on the displacement paradox and the Jevons paradox, with consideration of their implications for the potential effects of aquaculture on wild fisheries. The Jevons paradox refers to circumstances where improvements in the efficiency of resource use lead to growth in consumption and therefore undermine conservation. The displacement paradox refers to circumstances where increasing use of a potential substitute for a resource (e.g., farmed fish) does not lead to proportionate reduction in consumption of the other resource (e.g., wild fish). The literature on the displacement paradox and the Jevons paradox suggests that there may be unanticipated consequences from the rise of aquaculture that may be detrimental for fisheries conservation. Here, we present theoretical explanations, drawing on the tragedy of the commodity, for understanding the tendencies for these technological paradoxes to occur and emphasize their relevance for concerns associated with fisheries and aquaculture systems.
By Spencer Roberts, Jennifer Jacquet, Patricia Majluf, Matthew N. Hayek
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Research
Mar 01 - 2024
EN Asia
Corporate Accountability Lab
Human Rights and Environmental Abuses in India’s Shrimp Industry
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Research
Jan 01 - 2023
EN Europe
Rethinking EU Aquaculture: For People, Animals and the Planet
Compassion in World Farming
Why the EU aquaculture industry should move away from intensive fish farming, towards extensive systems that are more sustainable and better for the environment.
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Research
Dec 01 - 2007
EN Global
Challenging the Aquaculture Industry on Sustainability
Greenpeace
Against a continuing background of diminishing and over–exploited marine resources, aquaculture has been widely held up as a panacea to the problem of providing a growing world population with ever-increasing amounts of fish for consumption. With the expansion of the industry, however, the tendency has been for methods of production to intensify, particularly in the production of carnivorous species. This has resulted in many serious impacts on the environment and human rights abuses. This report examines some of the serious environmental and social impacts that have resulted from the development and practice of aquaculture and which are reflected across the global industry.
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