The scientific principles underlying the monitoring of the environmental impacts of aquaculture.

By Fernandes, Eleftheriou, Ackefors, Ervik, Sanchez‐Mata, Scanlon, White, Pearson, Read. 2001

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This paper provides a critical review of the main issues regarding the scientific principles underlying environmental monitoring of marine aquaculture operations and makes recommendations relevant to the implementation of best practice for the management of aquaculture in Europe. Given that a variety of cultured species and approaches are adopted in Europe, it is not possible, or indeed desirable, to devise prescriptive guidelines. Instead, this paper reviews how science informs monitoring and provides a framework for the development of a monitoring strategy of marine aquaculture operations that is flexible enough to be applicable to a variety of locations, species and situations. Traditionally environmental monitoring has concentrated on a few key physical and chemical variables and organisms. The trend now, however, is towards whole-system environmental assessment (e.g. CEC 2000; Osparcom 1998), including considerations of the assimilative capacity of specific systems and their ability to absorb and dilute perturbations. Against this background this paper addresses the following specific objectives: • review of the rationale and scientific principles underlying current environmental monitoring with specific reference to marine aquaculture; • evaluation of the links between monitoring and regulatory criteria, specifically consideration of environmental quality objectives and environmental quality standards, and the role of environmental impact assessment; • assessment of the role of codes of best conduct and practice, and environmental management systems in the management of aquaculture operations. The paper concludes by proposing a set of recommendations which will contribute towards the sustainable management of aquaculture operations, through the implementation of a more focused approach to environmental monitoring.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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• Impact of fish farms on maerl beds in strongly tidal areas (2006, background): “…This has provided jobs and infrastructure in remote rural areas, but concerns have been raised over the environmental effects of such development (Fernandes et al. 2001, RCEP 2004 This study concentrated on the effects of organic deposition on the benthos in locations with fast water movements .”
• Assessing the suitability of a range of benthic indices in the evaluation of environmental impact of fin and shellfish aquaculture located in sites across Europe (2009, unknown): “…production) as they relate to aquaculture, are important, but elusive aspects, though they have received considerable attention from regulatory bodies and investigators (e.g. Fernandes et al., 2001, Stigebrandt et al., 2004; McKindsey et al., 2006; Ferreira et al., 2008; Sequeira et al., 2008).”
• Evaluation of salmon farming effects on marine systems in the inner seas of southern Chile: a large-scale mensurative experiment (2004, background): “this topic may be found in Maroni (2000) and Fernandes et al. (2001), among many other recent reviews.”
• Application of seaweed cultivation to the bioremediation of nutrient-rich effluent (2002, background): “Moreover, monitoring and regulation of aquaculture systems need to be based upon carrying capacity models of each area, if there will be sustainable aquaculture along the Korean coastal zone (Fernandes et al. 2000, 2001).”
• Response of demersal fish communities to the presence of fish farms (2005, background): “A considerable research effort has been invested over the last decades to investigate the environmental impacts of aquaculture (Gowen & Bradburry 1987, Wu 1995, Fernandes et al. 2001).”