Biodiversity and Aquaculture

Biodiversity and Aquaculture: Is There Tension Between Food ...

Some of the most familiar impacts of aquaculture on biodiversity are associated with the controls that production companies use to prevent ...

Aquaculture Production and Biodiversity Conservation | BioScience

Positive impacts of aquaculture. Presenting aquaculture as entirely negative is biased, as some effects of aquaculture on biodiversity may be ...

Biodiversity in aquatic food systems - Fisheries and Aquaculture

Aquatic Biodiversity. FAO has a mandate to halt the loss of genetic resources. It also works to ensure aquatic genetic resources are ...

Can aquaculture help create a sustainable planet?

Cultured seafood can help reduce the pressure on overexploited wild stocks, enhance depleted stocks, boost natural production and species ...

A traits-based approach to assess aquaculture's contributions to ...

Aquaculture has the potential to support a sustainable and equitable food system in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development ...

Biodiversity underpins all fishing and aquaculture activities

Conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal biodiversity is essential to ensure that the world's oceans, seas and marine ...

Improving biodiversity by reducing impacts from salt and freshwater ...

Aquaculture comes in three types: inland, coastal, and marine. Inland or freshwater aquaculture, the largest source of farmed aquatic animal species (62.5% of ...

A global assessment of species diversification in aquaculture

Abstract. Aquaculture is a diverse food production system, and a high species diversity in aquaculture can make the global food system more ...

Biodiversity and Fishing | Marine Stewardship Council

Does overfishing harm biodiversity? Yes, fishing that is unsustainable or destructive can seriously impact biodiversity. Around 37.7% of the world's fish stocks ...

restorative aquaculture - The Society for Conservation Biology - Wiley

Food production has a considerable environmental impact, and the scale of this impact will increase with greater global demand.

New research reveals 12 ways aquaculture can benefit the ...

Aquaculture, or the farming of aquatic plants and animals, contributes to biodiversity and habitat loss in freshwater and marine ecosystems ...

12 ways aquaculture can benefit the environment | The Fish Site

Aquaculture can also be used to replace wild harvesting of threatened species. Over 90 percent of freshwater aquarium species are now farmed, ...

Revolutionising fish nutrition for the sake of biodiversity

Its implications even reach beyond the fish farms themselves, by providing a sustainable protein alternative to fishmeal and fish oil sourced ...

Integration of Sustainability, Preservation of Biodiversity and ...

Aquaculture production has significantly increased in volume and value over the last decades. But while this growth and the development of sustainable ...

New study confirms seaweed and mussel farms improve biodiversity ...

However, both aquaculture habitats were found to have a much higher abundances of fish settlers than the natural habitats. Some of the key ...

Fisheries & aquaculture - BIODEV2030

THE IMPACT OF FISHING & AQUACULTURE ON BIODIVERSITY · Increased fishing effort has led to overexploitation of most resources of commercial interest. · The ...

Alien Species in Aquaculture and Biodiversity: A Paradox in Food ...

Aquaculture is seen as an alternative to meeting the widening gap in global rising demand and decreasing supply for aquatic food products.

PRESERVING BIODIVERSITY IN FISH-FARMING ARRANGEMENTS

As fish farming expands to meet global seafood demand, potential environmental challenges emerge, particularly concerning biodiversity preservation. The ...

Achieving conservation and restoration outcomes

Aquaculture, the culturing of aquatic organisms, often contributes to the numerous stressors that aquatic ecosystems face, yet some aquaculture ...

Fisheries and aquaculture in the context of global biodiversity ...

A number of global biodiversity agreements exist that are relevant to the fisheries and aquaculture sector. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is ...