Acronym ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION
Category
Aquaculture
Title Environmental impact of aquaculture and co-existing industries: Scope for comprehensive regulation Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
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Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Anita Evenset Coordinator email ane@akvaplan.niva.no
Coordinator institution
Akvaplan-niva - Akvaplan-niva AS (Norway)
Institutions involved
NIVA - Norwegian Institute for Water Research (Norway) ,
NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway) ,
Start year 2022 End year 2022 Funding (€) € 599,400 Website https://www.fhf.no/prosjekter/prosjektbasen/901738/ Summary In recent decades, the Norwegian aquaculture industry has been through a phase of rapid expansion, with good profitability, great value creation and increasing importance for communities along the entire coast. Sustainable growth in salmon farming requires solutions that provide control over the environmental and fish health challenges, and which can at the same time contribute to greater acceptance of the industry's area needs. Growth in the aquaculture industry is managed through the allocation of permits to given companies, in given production areas (POs). Today, expansion of production volume is limited by certain environmental impact indicators, such as salmon lice and organic load.
The term green shift has been established as a central political goal on the Norwegian agenda, and both the industry and the administration want growth to be environmentally sustainable and follow a holistic and ecosystem-based management. A comprehensive ecosystem-based management requires an understanding of the ecosystem's function and structure and overall effects of different types of human influence on the ecosystems.
New concepts for sea farming have different forms of environmental footprint than conventional solutions. In addition to new concepts, new ecosystems will be used as a result of increased diversification within farming with more farming species. The rapid development of Norwegian aquaculture production therefore entails a spatial expansion from the traditional cage locations to farming operations in a diverse ecosystem; on land, in fjords and at sea. This entails a need for new types of requirements and regulations, and not least knowledge about environmental impact.
Main goal:
To prepare a broad overview of the knowledge base, and requirements related to environmental impact from aquaculture, and environmental risk for effects on aquaculture from other industries, at locality, area and national level for all forms of aquaculture in Norway. As well as exploring the scope for a more direct and differentiated regulation of the environmental impact from aquaculture.
Sub-goals
1. To compile the knowledge base on the impact of the aquaculture industry on the environment. Through the compilation, the most important environmental impacts must be mapped and evaluated and systematized in order to evaluate the quantity and quality of the knowledge base for the various environmental impacts (work package 1).
2. To compile the knowledge base on environmental risks from other industries and activities (direct and indirect effects) that operate in the same ecosystems as aquaculture along the coast and at sea (work package 2).
3. To review and analyze the regulation of environmental impact from the aquaculture industry, including the knowledge base that is used today and how trade-offs are made. Similarly for how coincident environmental impacts from other human activities are regulated in holistic and ecosystem-based management (work package 3).
4. To analyze the opportunities that lie in a better knowledge base for a more differentiated and locally adapted aquaculture management, as well as a more holistic and economically efficient management of environmental impact from both the aquaculture industry and other environmental impact created by human activity (work package 4).
Keywords
Environmental impact;
Policy;
Anthropic activity;
Impacts;
Risk assessment;
Aquaculture management;
Marine Region
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Spitzbergen and Bear Island (27.IIb)
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Norwegian Sea (27.IIa)
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