Ocean Aquatic Food Systems: How Seafood Systems throughout the World Interact with Ecosystems, Fisheries, Aquaculture, and People
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 May 2021) | Viewed by 277
Special Issue Editor
Interests: aquaculture; permaculture; food systems; fisheries and food (SAGARPA); integrated systems biology; commercial fisheries; aquaculture environment interactions
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Dear Colleagues,
Marine aquatic food resource systems in capture fisheries and aquaculture are planned, investigated, and managed as if they were independent entities, and nationally controlled. However, they are complex social-ecological systems that share common, international concerns in relation to ecosystems, jobs, trade, markets, processing, water quality, genetic diversity, and ecosystem impacts, among many others. The FAO (2012) stated that “Fisheries and aquaculture interact with increasing intensity as fishers shift from fishing to aquaculture and by competing in the same markets with similar products. The need to integrate planning and management of the two sectors seems vital to their future development and sustainability”. Comprehensive analyses and leadership training programs in marine aquatic foods are needed to develop the longer-term outlook for managing the seafood needs of the future, as more than ever, deep, hyperlocal food systems interact globally in a highly interdisciplinary way across the seafood economies of the Earth.
Prof. Dr. Barry A. Costa-Pierce
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- social-ecological systems in ocean aquatic foods
- sustainable ocean aquatic foods
- systems and trade
- ecological aquaculture
- ecosystems approach to aquaculture
- capture-based aquaculture
- aquaculture enhanced fisheries
