Aquaculture in the Ecosystem

Marianne Holmer, Kenny Black, Carlos M. Duarte, Nuria Marbà,

Ioannis Karakassis

The global expansion of aquaculture production and its future role as

a food supplier to human society has environmental, social and
economic limitations, affecting marine ecosystems and socio-
economic scales from local to global. The expansion is closely
linked with human health requirements and societal needs for
various goods and services provided by marine ecosystems. This
book provides a scientific forecast of the development in
aquaculture with a focus on the environmental, technological, social and economic
constraints that need to be resolved to ensure sustainable development of the industry and
allow the industry to be able to feed healthy seafood products to the future generations.
The chapters included discuss the most critical bottlenecks of the development
encompassing subjects of understanding the environmental impacts, the current state-of-
art in monitoring programs and in coastal zone management, the important interactions
between wild and cultured organisms including release of non-native species into the
wild, the current trends within the development of aquafeeds along with human health
aspects as well as the political, socio-economic and economic trends within the industry
including a chapter on approaches taken by Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to
aquaculture. Finally the last chapter provides different future scenarios of the industry
based on the identified bottlenecks. The contributions to this book were supported by the
EC-funded SAMI project.

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