Plastics in Aquaculture -The WAS-IMarEST Roundtables

摘要

Aquaculture is the fastest-growing food sector worldwide, representing a $250 billion industry, bringing to the table more seafood protein than traditional fisheries. As a unique alternative to the animal farming practices on land, where aquaculture development is limited by the competing requirements of urban development, forest cover and arable farming, among others, aquaculture has the potential to help meet demands without the same restrictions of ever-strained farming resources. To secure a sustainable future, however, aquaculture must ensure that scalability does not impact negatively on the stock species or wider marine environment. With an increasing global population and improving perception of seafood in diets, aquaculture must ensure that production yields are optimized, but also that the impacts of production are minimized and that the effects of other human activities on aquaculture are managed.