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Aquaculture: Responsible Practices and Certification.
2009
Author(s): IUCN The World Conservation Union
Executive Summary: Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms, including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants, and embraces all kinds of aquaculture (inland and marine, and capture based or not). Farming implies some sort of intervention in the rearing process to enhance production, such as regular stocking, feeding and protection from predators. Farming also implies individual or corporate ownership of the stock being cultivated.
Over the past decade, there has been growing concern among international stakeholders, particularly in Mediterranean countries, about aquaculture product quality, knowledge management, interaction with the environment, technology and systems, fish health and welfare, management of biological lifecycles and sustainable feed production within the aquaculture sector. This has driven a constructive debate among stakeholders, resulting in the drafting of this Guide “Aquaculture Responsible Practices and Certification”.
Type of Document: Text
Document: PDF
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Aquaculture: Site selection and Site Management
2008
Author(s): IUCN The World Conservation Union
Executive Summary:The shared use of Public Domain areas and the conservation policies for the Mediterranean Sea reduce the availability of sites. At the same time, however, demand for aquaculture products is increasing, especially because industries such as that in the Mediterranean can supply a constant stream of quality products at stable prices. Further efforts are still required to ensure the sustainable development of aquaculture in the Mediterranean; to this end, site selection and site management are important processes that need to be implemented in a sustainable manner.
Most problems stem from the lack of a full appreciation of the essential elements that need to be considered in the site selection and site management processes. Wrong decisions based on incomplete information might jeopardise the sustainable development of aquaculture in the Mediterranean.
This Guide seeks to provide the reader with a full set of parameters and ideas to think about and apply to site selection and site management.
Perhaps not all the aspects that might have been treated have been included, but an effort has been made to address those considered relevant within a sustainable framework.
Type of Document: Text
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Author(s): Eurostat – European Communities
Type of Document: PPT Presentation
Document: Full Presentation
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Author(s): Eurostat – European Communities
Type of Document: PPT Presentation
Document: Full Presentation
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