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Aquaculture, Innovation and Social Transformation

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Editors:
  1. Keith Culver

    1. University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

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  2. David Castle

    1. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

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  • First book-length collaborative study of the social context, future and consequences of aquaculture in Canada
  • A blend of perspectives: Canadian and European academic chapters with commentaries from commentators who work in the private and public sectors
  • First Nations perspectives offered by First Nations members
  • Epilogue ‘from the outside looking in,’ Barry Costa-Pierce of the University of Rhode Island offers a comparative American perspective on the Canadian experience of industrializing aquaculture

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Messages, Consumers and Aquaculture: New Products, New Worries

    1. Public Engagement Regarding Aquaculture Products Produced Through Biotechnology

      • David Castle, Karen Finlay, Steve Clark
      Pages 221-234

    2. Consumers and Aquaculture, New Products – New Worries

      • Frode Nilssen
      Pages 235-244

    3. Aquaculture Innovation and the Role of Popular and Trade Media

      • Kenny McCaffrey
      Pages 245-252

  2. The Final Frontier: Integrated Coastal Zone Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-254
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    2. Integrated Systems Analysis for Marine Site Evaluations and Multicriteria Decision Support for Coastal Aquaculture

      • Daniel Lane, Wojtek Michalowski, Robert Stephenson, Fred Page
      Pages 255-264

    3. Integrated Systems Analysis for Marine Site Evaluation: Appropriate for the Canadian Marine Farming Industry?

      • James A. Smith
      Pages 265-269

    4. Models for Analysis and Practical Realities of Marine Aquaculure Siting

      • Thierry Chopin
      Pages 271-277

  3. New practices for Global Competitiveness: Alternate Species, Alternate Uses, and Value-Added Aquaculture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-281
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    2. Governance for Global Competitiveness: The Future of Aquaculture Policy in aWorld Turned Upside Down

      • Jeremy Rayner
      Pages 283-296

    3. Consumer Confidence, Food Safety, and Salmon Farming

      • Paul Lyon
      Pages 297-305

    4. Aquaculture Policies for Global Competitiveness: An Industry Perspective

      • Colin J. Barrow
      Pages 307-313

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 315-345
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Keith Culver and David Castle Introduction Aquaculture is at the leading edge of a surprisingly polarized debate about the way we produce our food. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, aquaculture production has increased 8. 8% per year since 1970, far surpassing productivity gains in terrestrial meat production at 2. 8% in the same period (FAO 2007). Like the ‘green revolution’ before it, the ‘blue revolution’ in aquaculture promises rapidly increased productivity through technology-driven - tensi?cation of aquaculture animal and plant production (Costa-Pierce 2002; The Economist 2003). Proponents of further aquaculture development emphasize aq- culture’s ancient origins and potential to contribute to global food security d- ing an unprecedented collapse in global ?sheries (World Fish Center; Meyers and Worm 2003; Worm et al. 2006). For them, technology-driven intensi?cation is an - dinary and unremarkable extension of past practice. Opponents counter with images of marine and freshwater environments devastated by intensive aquaculture pr- tices producing unsustainable and unhealthy food products. They view the promised revolutionasascam,nothingmorethanclever marketingbypro?t-hungry ?shfa- ers looking for ways to distract the public from the real harms done by aquaculture. The stark contrast between proponents and opponents of modern aquaculture recalls decades of disputes about intensive terrestrial plant and animal agriculture, disputes whose vigor shows that the debate is about much more than food production (Ruse and Castle 2002).

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“Presents oppositional evidence around seven contentious issues surrounding aquaculture in an advanced industrial country … . very interesting book–and a way to learn about aquaculture as a future source of animal protein. … required reading for those interested in aquaculture as a source of food and trade. It is also useful for scholars of ethics, knowledge, and governance of production and natural resources. … Contested knowledges, particularly of impacts, of both scientists and fishers is the basis of governance in times of rapid change.”­­­ (Cornelia Butler Flora, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 23, 2010)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

    Keith Culver

  • University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

    David Castle

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