RT Journal Article
T1 Availability and usefulness of economic data on the effects of aquaculture: a North Atlantic comparative assessment
A1 Mikkelsen, Eirik
A1 Fanning, Lucia
A1 Kreiss, Cornelia
A1 Billing, Suzannah‐Lynn
A1 Dennis, John
A1 Filgueira, Ramon
A1 Grant, Jon
A1 Krause, Gesche
A1 Lipton, Doug
A1 Miller, Molly
A1 Perez, José
A1 Stead, Selina
A1 Villasante Larramendi, Carlos Sebastián
K1 Aquaculture
K1 Economic data
K1 Management
K1 Planning
K1 Policy relevance
AB This paper focuses on the availability of economic indicators and metrics to assess effects of marine aquaculture production in the North Atlantic area (the EU, Norway, Canada and USA), including also social and environmental effects. We consider how aquaculture planning and management is organised in the different countries and the usefulness of economic information to address different aquaculture‐related policies. We find that the most relevant economic data for aquaculture management should be at the local and regional levels rather than nationally. The availability of such economic data is mapped for national, regional and local level. The focus is on data that are publicly available from authorities or research institutions. The availability of data is generally fairly good for national and regional data on the direct economic effects of aquaculture. Data on how aquaculture‐related products or input markets are affected are however poorly available, as are economic data on external effects from aquaculture. Countries with a larger aquaculture sector tend to have better availability of aquaculture‐related economic data than those with a smaller sector. An index is developed and calculated to show more specifically where the countries have relatively good or poor data availability compared to their needs. While it will not always be cost‐effective or meaningful to collect economic data on the effects of aquaculture, our study indicates that several countries could benefit from expanding such data collection. It can make trade‐off decisions more consistent and easier to perform, and aquaculture policies and measures can be better tailored to specific contexts
PB Wiley
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24207
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24207
LA eng
NO Mikkelsen, E., Fanning, L., Kreiss, C., Billing, S.‐L., Dennis, J., Filgueira, R., Grant, J., Krause, G., Lipton, D., Miller, M., Perez, J., Stead, S. and Villasante, S. (2021), Availability and usefulness of economic data on the effects of aquaculture: a North Atlantic comparative assessment. Rev. Aquacult., 13: 601-618. https://doi.org/10.1111/raq.12488
NO This article is based upon work from COST Action OceansPast Platform (OPP – IS1403), supported by COST (Euro-pean Cooperation in Science and Technology). We gratefully acknowledge support also from the institutions of the authors, and discussions in the ICES Working Group onSocial and Economic Dimensions of Aquaculture. In particular, we thank Max Troell, Cecile Brugere and Max Ebeling for input. Lucia Fanning was supported by the Ocean Frontier Institute Large Research Project on Social Licenseand Planning in Coastal Communities
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026