Credits and acknowledgements

Authorship

The "Measuring sustainability in aquaculture" Unit was written by Dr Richard Newton, Dr Sonia Rey Planellas and Professor David Little at the Institute of Aquaculture, Unviersity of Stirling, UK.


Video

The video "Socio economic measures for aquaculture sustainability" was produced by David Little at the University of Stirling and made available through the standard YouTube License.

The video "The Aquaculture Governance Indicators" was produced by the Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University. It is made availble through the standard YouTube License.


Figures

Figure 1. Life cycle approach to assessing the impacts from aquaculture, showing inputs and emissions through the value chain. This was drawn by Richard Newton using own or Creative Commons licensed photographs. It is licenced under Creative Commons 4.0 cc-by-nc-sa.

Figure 2. Schematic of a hypothetical salmon value chain shown where data may be sourced (Red rings – primary, Green – literature sources). This was drawn by Richard Newton using own or Creative Commons licensed photographs. It is licenced under Creative Commons 4.0 cc-by-nc-sa.

Figure 3. An example of a Life Cycle Inventory list of emissions. Partial emissions from driving a petrol car. This is a screenshot taken from the EcoInvent 3 database. Wernet, G., Bauer, C., Steubing, B., Reinhard, J., Moreno-Ruiz, E., and Weidema, B., 2016. The ecoinvent database version 3 (part I): overview and methodology. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, [online] 21(9), pp.1218–1230. Available at: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11367-016-1087-8.

Figure 4. Example "wheels of sustainability" for two aquaculture species/systems. Source: Troell, M., Costa-Pierce, B., Stead, S., Cottrell, R.S., Brugere, C., Farmery, A.,
Little, D., Strand, Å.,  Soto, D.,  Pullin, R., Beveridge, M.  Salie, K., Yossa, R., Valenti, M., Blanchard, J., Dresdner, J.,  James,  P.,  Allison, E., Devaney, C., and Barg, U. 2021. Perspectives on aquaculture's contribution to the SDGs for improved human and planetary health. Background paper for FAO Shanghai Symposium - "Aquaculture and the SDGs". 

Figure 5. Contribution of aquaculture and fisheries to national gross domestic product. Reproduced from: Cai, J.N., Huang, H. & Leung, P.S. 2019. Understanding and measuring the contribution of aquaculture and fisheries to gross domestic product (GDP). FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper No. 606. Rome, FAO. 80 pp. https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/CA3200EN/  Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

Figure 6. The contribution of aquaculture to GDP.  Reproduced from: Little, D.C., Newton, R.W., Beveridge, M.C.M., 2016. Aquaculture: a rapidly growing and significant source of sustainable food? Status, transitions and potential. Proc. Nutr. Soc. 75, 274–286. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665116000665.

Figure 7. Characterisation of countries according to orientation of aquaculture industry towards domestic or export markets. This was reproduced from: Golden, C.D., Seto, K.L., Dey, M.M., Chen, O.L., Gephart, J.A., Myers, S.S., Smith, M., Vaitla, B., Allison, E.H., 2017. Does aquaculture support the needs of nutritionally vulnerable nations? Front. Mar. Sci. 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00159.  It is licenced under Creative Commons 4.0  cc-by

Figure 8. Aquaculture and capture fisheries exports and apparent domestic consumption in selected countries (2011).  This is reproduced from Belton, B., Bush, S.R., Little, D.C., 2018. Not just for the wealthy: Rethinking farmed fish consumption in the Global South. Glob. Food Sec. 16, 85–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2017.10.005, using data from FAO FishStatJ database - https://www.fao.org/fishery/en/statistics/software/fishstatj/en.

Figure 9. Mass-balance calculations for seafood supply and demand for selected European countries.  This chart is generated from GAIN Project Data. It is licenced under Creative Commons 4.0 cc-by-nc-sa.

Figure 10. Rate of BAP non-compliance for finfish and crustacean farm, salmon farm and processing plant standards in 2017 and 2018 (mean) at audit.  This is reproduced from Kruijssen et. al. 2021 Assessment of the social impact of the GAA 'Best Aquaculture Practices' certification.  KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam - https://www.kit.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GAA_Report.pdf 

Figure 11. OWI table for salmon (from Noble et al 2018, fishwell, EU projecthttps://nofima.com/results/the-english-version-of-the-fishwell-atlantic-salmon-welfare-handbook-is-out-now/). It is licenced under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0

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