Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture and Sites Suitability Assessment
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2022) | Viewed by 2624
Special Issue Editor
Interests: marine invertebrate aquaculture; bivalve physiology; finfish aquaculture; integrated multitrophic aquaculture; aquaculture sites suitability assessment; marine invertebrates population genetics; bivalves' growth modelling; coastal ecology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aquaculture, the farming of aquatic organisms, is a sustainable strategic sector for land and coastal communities. It significantly contributes to food security and enhancement of economic development by providing employment opportunities in rural and coastal areas. Aquaculture can also contribute to healthy enviroments providing important ecoystem and cultural services. In 2018, aquaculture reached the all-time highest production of 114.5 million tonnes in live weight with a total farm gate sale value of USD 263.6 billion. This makes aquaculture a key player within the Blue Growth concept and a strong contributor to some of its key Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). However, despite various technological innovations and improvements in production techniques, this sector is still associated with misperceptions and negative opinions hampering its implementation and a wider consumption of its products. The integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) concept was developed as a way to increase the sustainability of intensive aquaculture systems, using an ecosystem-based approach. Nonetheless, many years after the development of this concept, its application at industrial scale is still limited.
With this special issue we would like to invite papers focused on the technical and socio-economic bottlenecks and opportunities offered by the IMTA concept. Priority will be given to multi-disciplinary, field-based investigations
Dr. Stefano Carboni
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- marine invertebrate aquaculture
- bivalve physiology
- finfish aquaculture
- integrated multitrophic aquaculture
- aquaculture sites suitability assessment
- marine invertebrates population genetics
- bivalves' growth modelling
- coastal ecology
