Abstract
Seafood is widely considered to be either fished or farmed. In contrast to this perception, many types of seafood are produced by enterprises using a combination of techniques traditionally ascribed to either fisheries or aquaculture. Categorizing seafood as either fished or farmed obfuscates the growth potential and environmental impacts of global seafood production. To better capture seafood data, national and international record-keeping organizations should add a new hybrid category for seafood produced using both fisheries and aquaculture methods.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 369-374 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Marine Policy |
Volume | 38 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 1 2013 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors would like to thank Elizabeth Havice, whose comments greatly improved an earlier version of this article. This work was conducted as part of the Envisioning a Sustainable Global Seafood Market and Restored Marine Ecosystems Working Group supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a Center funded by the NSF (Grant #EF-0553768 ), the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the State of California. M.T. was supported by a Packard Foundation grant to the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Aquatic Science
- General Environmental Science
- Economics and Econometrics
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
- Law