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Chris Ninnes et al., World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture
Aquaculture can help us transform our food systems and tackle the effects of biodiversity loss and climate change. But we need to make sure we develop the sector sustainably. This global roadmap sets out four pathways for the responsible development of aquaculture. It aims to help the aquaculture sector create the conditions to produce healthy, nutritious and accessible blue foods that benefit people and the planet. The recommendations outlined in this roadmap require collaborative action in aquaculture across geographies and sectors to achieve greater social, economic and environmental benefits by 2030. Scroll down for our summary roadmap and key actions or download the full roadmap.
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Crona, B.I., et al., Nature Fisheries & Aquaculture
Blue foods, sourced in aquatic environments, are important for the economies, livelihoods, nutritional security and cultures of people in many nations.
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Anna Ducros and Paul Steele, UNDP Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism
Biodiversity is degrading at alarming rates, and people living in biodiversity-rich areas often bear the heaviest costs of biodiversity loss and inequitable conservation efforts. Biodiversity credits, or ‘biocredits’, are emerging as a tradeable unit of biodiversity that can incentivise nature conservation and restoration to benefit marginalised groups living with nature.
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Goldman Sachs Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
A new report by Goldman Sachs explores how biodiversity is the cornerstone around which most sustainability objectives sit and an area which corporations and investors will likely pay increased attention in order to meet sustainability and economic goals.
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NOAA has published its first-ever 5-year aquaculture plan - guided by four key priorities - this week, in a bid to guide the agency’s work from 2023-2028.
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François Mosnier, Planet Tracker Fisheries & Aquaculture
A new report explores whether 100% sea-to-plate traceable seafood is a viable reality, finds that only 29% of global production is currently traceability-ready, outlines what it would take to achieve 100%, and what the implications would be for the industry at large.
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Meg Wilcox, Civil Eats Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
Rather than relying solely on plastic equipment, shellfish and seaweed growers are embracing biodegradable alternatives.
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Megan Howell, The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
A kelp farmer's guide to blue carbon
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Anthony de Freitas, Startup Savant Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Shipping & Ports
A roundup of 5 ocean startups transforming the future of marine conservation.
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Elizabeth Fitt, Monga Bay Fisheries & Aquaculture
Monga Bay breaks down negotiation happenings for the high seas protection treaty
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Ditria, E. et al., Frontiers in Marine Science Fisheries & Aquaculture
An automated approach facilitated by artificial intelligence (AI) provides conservation managers with a toolkit that can help alleviate a number of these issues by reducing the monitoring bottlenecks and long-term costs of monitoring.
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Dennis Fritsch, UNEP FI on Fisheries & Aquaculture
Investors need to understand the potential risks associated with ‘business as usual’ in the seafood sector and seek opportunities to play a role in supporting the transition towards sustainable seafood finance.
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Chuku, E.O., et al Frontiers in Marine Science Fisheries & Aquaculture
The observation of an across-the-region presence of estuarine and mangrove ecosystems with several harvested species of socio-economic importance to women harvesters and their households signals the feasibility of women-led shellfisheries as an avenue for an integrated approach to sustainable management of these systems in West Africa.
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Elizabeth Devitt, World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture
Global interest in studying seaweed for food, carbon storage and other uses could help improve wild kelp restoration methods.
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Arno Van't Hoog, Wageningen University Fisheries & Aquaculture
Adapting crops and farming systems is now a crucial task for agricultural science.
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FAO Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022 presents updated and verified statistics of the sector and analyses its international policy context and selected high-impact actions undertaken to accelerate international efforts in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Tigchelaar, M. et al., Global Food Security Fisheries & Aquaculture
Blue foods play a central role in food and nutrition security for billions of people and are a cornerstone of the livelihoods, economies, and cultures of many coastal and riparian communities.
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Ward, M. et al., Ocean & Coastal Management Fisheries & Aquaculture
Shellfish growers were interviewed about their experiences with environmental change.
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Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American Fisheries & Aquaculture
From giant land-based salmon tanks to submersible shellfish platforms, experiments in aquaculture are dotting Maine’s coasts.
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Free, C.M. et al., Nature Fisheries & Aquaculture
As the human population and demand for food grow, the ocean will be called on to provide increasing amounts of seafood. Although fsheries reforms and advances in ofshore aquaculture (hereafter ‘mariculture’) could increase production, the true future of seafood depends on human responses to climate change.
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