The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation commissioned a Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP) to develop a framework for the assessment and communication of environmental risks which may be associated with coastal aquaculture. Their report was recently released and is well worth a look.
The rationale behind the report is simple – to demonstrate that a consideration of the social, economic and environmental dimensions of coastal aquaculture must be developed, presented and communicated in a way that acknowledges the extent and limits of our ability to predict the consequence of development.
The report includes six case studies that describe how the GESAMP framework has been deployed in coastal aquaculture projects around the world, involving species ranging from finfish to molluscs and shrimp. The type of effects studied includes effects on carrying capacity, phytoplankton, kelp, benthic fauna, the genome of wild fishes and salinisation of soils.
The full report is available here and .pdfs of each chapter are available here
Tags: Environment, FAO, Risk assessment
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