GEOG 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Sustainable Fishery, Overfishing, New Approach
Document Summary
Where is aquaculture important: varies regionally, asia: mainly from aquaculture. Questions towards how well asian countries are recording their captures. What kinds of species are being used in aquaculture: finfish are the most, also contribution from mollusks and aquatic plants. Environmental risk of marine aquaculture: mainly things that get added into the fish"s habitat, drugs, herbicides, sewage from the fish. Debating(marine) aquaculture: rapid production declines due to habitat degradation. Responses to over fishing: consider again the world"s eezs (exclusive economic zones: some cases, we have treaties, other cases, there are disputes, not only what"s happening in the economic zones, but also what"s happening in the open ocean. Public has some right to access the fish: private rights within eez. System is privatizing the fish: common property: Is the open ocean really open access": open ocean governance: Un convention on the law of the sea. Make open ocean safe and fair place to fish.
