Aquaculture Feed - Status Review Article

The World Wildlife Fund initiated the Salmon Aquaculture Dialogue in February 2004. The goal of the Dialogue is to engage stakeholders in constructive dialogue to define environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable salmon farming, develop performance-based and verifiable standards, and foster their implementation. The Dialogue is currently headed by a multi-stakeholder steering committee. Six key areas of concern were identified as the main environmental issues associated with salmon farming: feed; chemical inputs; disease; benthic impacts and siting; nutrient loading and carrying capacity; and escapes. There is considerable controversy surrounding these six issues and the extent to which they are known to lead to environmental degradation. The Salmon Aquaculture Dialogue will commission state of information reports on each of these key areas of concern.

The first of the ’state of information’ reports relates to feed. The report provides a comprehensive coverage of the subject matter and importantly for the finfish project identifies where additional scope for innovation may lie. The full report written by Albert G.J. Tacon Ph.D. Aquaculture Research Director Aquatic Farms Ltd of Hawaii is available here.

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