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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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Investigative Journalism
Mar 01 - 2021
EN Africa
Fish Farming Is Feeding the Globe. What's the Cost for Locals?
The New Yorker
In the small coastal country, an exploding industry has led to big economic promises, and a steep environmental price. By Ian Urbina
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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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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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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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May 01 - 2019
EN Europe
Safeguarding Marine Protected Areas in the Growing Mediterranean Blue Economy
PHAROS4MPAS
Recommendations for aquaculture https://pharos4mpas.interreg-med.eu
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Jan 01 - 2010
EN Global
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture highlights the major role and challenges facing fisheries and aquaculture worldwide.
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