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New Approaches to Fisheries and Aquaculture Sustainability

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2019) | Viewed by 3653

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School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125-3393, USA
Interests: sustainability science; marine seafood sustainability; aquarium trade; technology for marine seafood supply chain management; sustainable marine aquaculture

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RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Göteborg, Sweden
Interests: aquaculture; fisheries; LCA; nutrition; seafood; sustainability assessment
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Dear Colleagues,

The sustainable seafood movement has been working for two decades to improve fisheries and aquaculture through a variety of means to ensure, overall, a healthy ocean. However, after two decades, many of the issues originally identified (IUU fishing, human rights abuses, excessive environmental impacts, aquaculture escapes, lack of benefits to producers) still remain problematic. This lack of progress needs to be explored, and if current methods are deficient, then new approaches will be necessary. This Special Issue will address progress to date, evaluate current methods, and explore new approaches to ensure that we do not over-promise and under-deliver fisheries and aquaculture sustainability.

Dr. Michael Tlusty
Dr. Friederike Ziegler
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • aquaculture
  • certification
  • continual improvement
  • environmental impact
  • fisheries
  • seafood

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Article
Assessing the Vulnerability of Marine Fisheries in China: Towards an Inter-Provincial Perspective
by Qi Chen, Weiteng Shen and Bing Yu
Sustainability 2018, 10(11), 4302; https://doi.org/10.3390/su10114302 - 20 Nov 2018
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Abstract
China’s marine fisheries are undergoing large-scale environmental changes associated with climate change, marine pollution, and overfishing. The assessment of marine fisheries vulnerability has become extremely necessary for fisheries management and sustainable development. However, studies on China’s marine fisheries vulnerability remains sparse. This study [...] Read more.
China’s marine fisheries are undergoing large-scale environmental changes associated with climate change, marine pollution, and overfishing. The assessment of marine fisheries vulnerability has become extremely necessary for fisheries management and sustainable development. However, studies on China’s marine fisheries vulnerability remains sparse. This study aimed to provide an analysis of the inter-provincial level vulnerability of China’s marine fisheries under multiple disturbances. The vulnerability measure was composed of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity indicators specific to marine fisheries based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) definitions. Results showed that Liaoning, Hebei, Fujian, and Hainan provinces appeared to be the most vulnerable; Shanghai appeared to be less vulnerable among China’s 11 coastal provinces; and the key sources of vulnerability differed considerably among coastal regions. The high vulnerability regions could be divided into two different patterns according to the combination of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity, but they all had one thing in common: relatively low adaptive capacity. While some existing coercive measures to reduce dependence on fisheries were found to be helpful in China, the reality showed that appropriate adaptation measures such as improving fishermen’s education level and increasing vocational training may be helpful in enhancing the existing policy effectiveness. Full article
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