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Economic Analysis of an Ecosystems Approach to Aquaculture (FAO) Aquaculture growth worldwide involves the expansion of cultivated areas, a higher density of aquaculture installations and farmed individuals and greater use of feed resources produced outside of the immediate culture area. Such evolution of the sector could carry negative impacts on the environment and on portions of society when unregulated and badly managed. The Aquaculture Management and Conservation Service (FIMA) of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department initiated an effort in 2006 to look into the development and application of the ecosystem approach to aquaculture. We participated in several of these activities to support sustainable aquaculture, including workshops in Vancouver, Canada and Palma de Mallorca, Spain on “Building an ecosystem approach to aquaculture”. The workshop participants, a multidisciplinary and multinational group of experts, agreed that: “An ecosystem approach for aquaculture (EAA) is a strategy for the integration of the activity within the wider ecosystem in such a way that it promotes sustainable development, equity, and resilience of interlinked social and ecological systems." The resulting views and research from the workshops were published in two FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Proceedings, including two chapters prepared by Duncan Knowler. Publications/Presentations: Knowler, D. "Economic implications of an ecosystems approach to aquaculture." In Building an Ecosystem Approach to Aquaculture (EAA). FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Proceedings No. 14. FAO/Universitat de les Illes Balears Expert Workshop, 7-11 May 2007, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. FAO, Rome. Knowler, D. "Environmental Economics Approaches for the Comparative Evaluation of Aquaculture and Other Food Producing Sectors". In Comparative Assessment of the Environmental Costs of Aquaculture and Other Food Production Sectors. FAO Fisheries Proceedings 10. FAO/WFT Experts Workshop, 24-28 April 2006, Vancouver, Canada. FAO, Rome.

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