Aquaculture Ecosystems: Adaptability and Sustainability

Aquaculture Ecosystems contains a thorough and exciting synthesis of current information on aquaculture practices and substantial discussion of the way forward in transforming the aquaculture industry by improving its sustainability. This important book includes discussion of all the current major issues relating to aquaculture practices in relation to the ecology of their situations, environmental concerns, and details of how sustainability can be improved. Efforts have been made to include chapters that go beyond the stage of debate on old topics, providing conclusions to provide leads for action plans and practices addressing modern challenges such as global climate change. Commencing with a chapter covering concerns and solutions centred around seafood security, the following chapters cover the biology and behavior of aquatic animals and their selection for use in aquaculture systems, integrated multi–trophic aquaculture, nutrient inputs and pollution, biofouling, blue carbon stocks in coastal aquaculture, climate change adaptations and knowledge management in aquaculture. Written by internationally–recognized experts in aquaculture and ecology, and edited by Saleem Mustafa, well known for his work in aquatic sciences, the book provides a great deal of use and interest to all those involved in aquaculture planning and development, environmental sciences and aquatic ecology. All libraries in universities and research establishments where biological sciences and aquaculture are studied and taught should have copies of this vital reference on their shelves. INDICE: Preface .Contributors .Chapter 1 Sustainability of seafood production– challenges and the way forward Saleem Mustafa .1.1 Sustainability issues and concerns .1.2 The emergence of aquaculture .1.3 Biotechnology intervention .1.4 Ecological fisheries–ecological aquaculture synergy .Chapter 2 Biology of aquaculture animals– learning from nature to manage culture Rossita Shapawi and Sitti Raehanah M. Shaleh .2.1 The aquaculture ecosystems .2.2 Attributes of aquatic animals for production efficiency .2.3 Biological information relevant to aquaculture .2.4 Diversity and general organization .2.5 Select ion of species for culture .Chapter 3 Fish behavior and aquaculture Gunzo Kawamura, Teodora U. Bagarinao and Lim Leong Seng .3.1 Introduction .3.2 Sensory systems and functions .3.3 Photoreception by the pineal organ .3.4 Ontogeny of the sense organs in fish larvae .3.5 Effect  of color on fish larvae and juveniles in tanks and cages .3.6 Preference of fish for color of prey or feed .3.7 Effect of turbidity on fish feeding .3.8 Food search, taste preference and feed stimulants .3.9 Prey preference of captive tuna .3.10 Net collision of juvenile Pacific Bluefin tuna in cages .3.11 Predator attacks and escape of farmed fish from cages .3.12 Spawning of broodstock in cages .3.13 Effect of cage design and materials on fish .3.14 Effect of cage aquaculture on wild fish .3.15 Stress factors for fish sensory systems .Chapter 4 Biofouling challenge and management methods in marine aquaculyure John Madin and Chong Ving Ching .4.1 Introduction .4.2 Vulnerability of floating cage to biofouling .4.3 Community structure and colonization of biofouling organisms .4.4 Factors affecting biofouling assemblages .4.5 Biofouling prevention and control .4.6 Future research on biofouling .Chapter 5 Aquaculture, coastal pollution and the environment Nicholas Kathijotes, Lubna Alam and Artemis Kontou .5.1 Introduction .5.2 Practices in developing countries .5.3 The Cyprus nutrient situation .5.4 Mitigation and control .5.5 Conclusions .Chapter 6 Integrated multi–trophic aquaculture Abentin Estim .6.1 Introduction .6.2 Biofiltration in iMTA .6.3 Aquaponics .6.4 Recirculating system .Chapter 7 Significance of blue carbon in ecological aquaculture in the context of interrelated issues: a case of Costa Rica Marco Sepúlveda–Machado and Bernardo Aguilar–González .7.1 Introduction .7.2 Ecosystem services and blue carbon habitats .7.3 Mangroves–ecosystem services .7.4 Trends conditioning the state of mangroves .7.5 Blue carbon financial and institutional alternatives to command and control policies .7.6 Costa–Rica: Blue carbon potential and institutional profile .7.7 Market and fund–based mechanisms for mangrove rehabilitation and conservation .7.8 Community–based conservation of mangrove ecosystems as an institutional and financial alternative .7.9 Current events in Costa Rican climate change policies .7.10 A hybrid pioneer experience from the field: the community blue carbon program promoted by Fundacion Neotropica .7.11 Blue carbon and aquaculture– fine tuning  the institutional setting and scientific methods .Chapter 8 Implications of global climate change and aquaculture on blue carbon sequestration and storage within submerged aquatic ecosystems John Barry Gallagher .8.1 Introduction .8.2 Seagrass and microalgae .8.3 Conceptual models .8.4 Net ecosystem carbon balance: Inputs, outputs and storage terms  .8.5 Blue carbon model parameters .8.6 Climate change effects on the community s blue carbon sequestration and storage .8.7 The effects of aquaculture on blue carbon sequestration and storage .8.8 Gaps in current knowledge .8.9 Conclusions .Chapter 9 Knowledge  management in modern aquaculture Faizan Hasan Mustafa, Shigeharu Senoo and Awangku Hassanal Bahar Pengiran Bagul .9.1 Introduction .9.2 KM ecosystem in aquaculture .9.3 KM systems  and tools .9.4 Learning and capturing ideas with modern tools .9.5 KM strategies for aquaculture .9.6 KM for aquaculture incubators .9.7 KM for policy–making, planning and management .References .Subject index

• ISBN: 978-1-118-77854-8
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 424
• Fecha Publicación: 07/08/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés