Aquaculture in the Ecosystem

1. Front Matter

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2. Fish Farm Wastes in the Ecosystem

   • Paul Tett

   Pages 1-46

3. Monitoring of Environmental Impacts of Marine Aquaculture

   • Marianne Holmer, Pia Kupka Hansen, Ioannis Karakassis, Joseph A. Borg, Patrick J. Schembri

   Pages 47-85

4. Aquaculture and Coastal Space Management in Europe: An Ecological Perspective

   • Tim Dempster, Pablo Sanchez-Jerez

   Pages 87-116

5. Detrimental Genetic Effects of Interactions Between Reared Strains and Wild Populations of Marine and Anadromous Fish and Invertebrate Species

   • T. F. Cross, G. Burnell, J. Coughlan, S. Culloty, E. Dillane, P. McGinnity et al.

   Pages 117-154

6. Non-Native Aquaculture Species Releases: Implications for Aquatic Ecosystems

   • Elizabeth J. Cook, Gail Ashton, Marnie Campbell, Ashley Coutts, Stephan Gollasch, Chad Hewitt et al.

   Pages 155-184

7. Safe and Nutritious Aquaculture Produce: Benefits and Risks of Alternative Sustainable Aquafeeds

   • J. Gordon Bell, Rune Waagbø

   Pages 185-225

8. NGO Approaches to Minimizing the Impacts of Aquaculture: A Review

   • Katherine Bostick

   Pages 227-249

9. Aquaculture in the Coastal Zone: Pressures, Interactions and Externalities

   • David Whitmarsh, Maria Giovanna Palmieri

   Pages 251-269

10. Future Trends in Aquaculture: Productivity Growth and Increased Production

    • Frank Asche, Kristin H. Roll, Sigbjørn Tveterås

    Pages 271-292

11. Status and Future Perspectives of Marine Aquaculture

    • Yngvar Olsen, Oddmund Otterstad, Carlos M. Duarte

    Pages 293-319

12. Back Matter

    Pages 321-326

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Aquaculture in the Ecosystem – An Introduction The growth of Aquaculture and its future role as a food supplier to human society has environmental, social and economic limitations, affecting marine ecosystems and socio-economic scales from local to global. These are close links with human health requirements and societal needs for various goods and services provided by marine ecosystems. This book shows this broad spectrum of dependencies of the future growth of aquaculture and highlights both relevant problems and expectations. Compensating for stagnant wild capture fisheries and the increasing demand for marine products, marine aquaculture is one of the fastest growing industries in the world, comparable to the computer technology industry (Chapters 9 and 10). The demand for marine products is controlled by a complexity of factors in our society, not least the increasing human population and the increasing global affluence that allows the consumer to buy higher priced marine products such as salmon, tuna and shellfish (Chapter 9). The populations of several of these top-carnivore species are seriously compromised and it will be impossible in the future to maintain wild c- tures at the level of consumer demand. In less affluent areas including SE Asia and Africa, aquaculture for both domestic consumption and export has major nutritional and economic benefits. The production of fish in aquaculture is thus expected to increase under the assumption that the bottlenecks for expansion can be overcome (Chapter 10).

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From the reviews:

"Marine aquaculture is one of the fastest growing industries globally. … Holmer … and colleagues have compiled papers that describe the impact of fish waste on ecosystems, monitoring of impacts, competing coastal land demands, genetic pollution of wild stocks, inadvertent release of nonnative species, and challenges to sustainable feeding. … Summing Up: Recommended. All readers." (J. Burger, Choice, Vol. 46 (2), October, 2008)

• Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark

  Marianne Holmer

• Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, Argyll, Scotland

  Kenny Black

• Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats (CSIC-UIB), Esporles (Illes Balears), Spain

  Carlos M. Duarte, Nuria Marbà

• Marine Ecology Laboratory Biology Department, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

  Ioannis Karakassis

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