Aquaculture Impacts on Marine Ecosystems
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 October 2021) | Viewed by 3417
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We hope this message finds you and your family well in these COVID times.
It is well known that aquaculture is one of the principal and very rapidly growing human activities carried out in the marine environment. Aquaculture can be seen from different points of view—as seafood production, as production of economic benefits, as employment opportunities, etc. However, in any case, successful aquaculture activities are highly dependent on the environment and the use of natural resources (i.e., capture-based aquaculture), having inevitable effects on different components of marine ecosystems. Some of these effects (i.e., local eutrophication, FAD effect, effects on the seabed, etc.) have been studied and described in a number of previously published papers, but many of them focused mainly on local effects in the vicinity of fish farms.
Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is to gather and provide the most recent information about the very diverse effects of marine aquaculture activities on different components of marine ecosystems. These effects might be positive or negative, direct or indirect, evident on small (local) or wide spatial scales, and may have influences on nutrients, native populations of marine organisms (plankton, algae, invertebrates, fish, sea birds, marine mammals, etc.), and the trophic structure in the ecosystem. New knowledge on these relations between different marine aquaculture activities (shellfish aquaculture, finfish aquaculture, capture-based aquaculture, etc.) and marine ecosystems is likely to play an important role in proper planning in the context of ecosystem-based management (EBM) in the future.
Having in mind your expertise in this field, we would like to kindly invite you and your colleagues to contribute papers to this Special Issue.
Dr. Vjekoslav Tičina
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mariculture
- marine organisms
- nutrients
- culturing effects
- marine ecosystems
