Aquaculture development and environmental capacity: where are the limits?
Aquaculture relies on many renewable and nonrenewable resources similar to any other food-producing sector in the world. Sustainable development and management of aquaculture thus require a good understanding of the conflicts and interactions between the resource use and resource users. Such understanding contributes to improving governance in resource use, which is an important prerequisite of sector sustainability.Aquaculture is now considered as the olution for bridging the supply and demand gap of aquatic food globally. As aquaculture is highly complex, its impacts on the environment will continue to be discussed,debated and scrutinized by the public. While the environmental impacts of aquaculture cannot be generalized, it is important to recognize problems where they occur and ensure that they are redressed or ameliorated locally. Although the major environmental concerns of aquaculture still remain the same as compared to a decade ago, the sector has adopted technologies and various management solutions for mitigating them, including bringing the social environment into greater consideration. The awareness of the importance of better management is increasing.However, there exist many practical difficulties. Improving environmental management and maintaining aquaculture within the limits of the capacity of the environment will only be possible with sound sector management. If the sector is to perform well,resource use conflicts must be adequately managed and effective enabling policy and legal environment must be provided at all levels. The nabling environment for sustainable aquaculture must be a result of a comprehensive dialogue and consultation among all stakeholders, government and private, and self-empowerment and self-governance must be considered as viable options while creating it.
Rohana P.Subasinghe Michael J.Phillips
Senior Aquaculture Officer Fisheries and Aquaculture Department Food and Agriculture Organization of Environment Specialist and Program Manager (Research and Development) Network of Aquaculture Centres
国际会议
青岛
英文
107-114
2007-05-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）