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Carrying Capacity for Sustainable Bivalve Aquaculture

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Bivalve aquaculture is one of the fastest growing sectors of the food industry, raising concerns about the influence of the activity on the environment. This is true at two levels: First, farmers must make sure that the bivalves that they raise do not deplete resources in a given area to such an extent that bivalve production is decreased. Second, society in general wishes that such activities have an acceptable impact on the environment and are sustainable. There is also intense competition for space and its use in many coastal zones, making siting of many farms contentious. Thus, many organizations have stressed the importance of determining the carrying capacity of different areas for bivalve culture. There are a number of ways that “carrying capacity” may be defined, including physical, production, ecological, and social, and the first three categories are to lesser or greater degrees related to social...

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Abbreviations

Benthic:

Pertaining to the sea floor.

Carrying capacity:

The intensity of a practice that a given environment can sustain indefinitely given the availability of various necessities in that environment and the various pressures on them.

Ecosystem approach to aquaculture (EAA):

A strategy to integrate aquaculture into context of the wider ecosystem such that it promotes sustainable development, equity, and resilience of interlinked social and ecological systems.

Ecosystem-based management (EBM):

A process that highlights the need to use the best available knowledge about the marine ecosystem to manage marine resources, with an emphasis on maintaining ecosystem service functions.

Integrated coastal zone management (ICZM):

A process for managing coastal zones that uses an integrated approach and considers all aspects of the coastal zones, including biological, geographical, and political boundaries, to achieve sustainability.

Model:

A simplified description, conceptual or mathematical, of a system or process, to assist in calculations, predictions, and understanding.

Pelagic:

Pertaining to the water column.

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McKindsey, C.W. (2012). Carrying Capacity for Sustainable Bivalve Aquaculture . In: Meyers, R.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0851-3_179

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