Shellfish aquaculture and the environment / edited by Sandra Shumway.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shumway, Sandra E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shellfish culture--Environmental aspects.

Shellfish culture.

Aquaculture--Environmental aspects.

Aquaculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Ames, Iowa : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Shellfish Aquaculture and the Environment focuses primarily on the issues surrounding environmental sustainability of shellfish aquaculture. The chapters in this book provide readers with the most current data available on topics such as resource enhancement and habitat restoration. Shellfish Aquacultureand the Environment is also an invaluable resource for those looking to develop and implement environmental best management practices. Edited one of the world's leading shellfish researchers and with contributions from around the world, Shellfish Aquaculture and the Environment is the definitive source of information for this increasingly important topic. View the Executive Summary here: http://seagrant.uconn.edu/publications/aquaculture/execsumm.pdf

Contents:

Intro

Shellfish Aquaculture and the Environment

Contents

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1: The role of shellfish farms in provision of ecosystem goods and services

Introduction

Methods of study

Ecosystem goods: biomass production

Ecosystem services: environmental quality

Literature cited

Chapter 2: Shellfish aquaculture and the environment: an industry perspective

Shellfish farmers and harvesters history of water quality protection and stewardship roles

BMPs, the shellfish industry, and the role of available research

Conclusion

Chapter 3: Molluscan shellfish aquaculture and best management practices

Ecosystem change and shellfish aquaculture

Classification of impacts

BMPs

Assurance labeling

Pressures to participate in certification programs

Perspectives on ecolabeling

Aquaculture certification programs

Critique of bivalve shellfish ecolabeling efforts in the United States

Criticisms of certification programs

Towards more meaningful labeling

Concluding remarks

Chapter 4: Bivalve filter feeding: variability and limits of the aquaculture biofilter

Constraints on maximum feeding activity

Shellfish feeding in nature

Emerging knowledge on ecosystem interactions with the bivalve biofilter

Conclusions

Chapter 5: Trophic interactions between phytoplankton and bivalve aquaculture

The interdependence of bivalves and phytoplankton

Bivalve population density: farmed bivalves are naturally gregarious

Bivalves as consumers and cultivators of phytoplankton

Summary and prospects

Acknowledgments

Chapter 6: The application of dynamic modeling to prediction of production carrying capacity in shellfish farming.

Physical oceanographic models

Filtration and seston depletion

Single-box models

Higher-order models

Fully spatial models

Population-based models

Local models

Optimization

Application to management

Modeling environmental impact

Sustainability and ecosystem-based management

Chapter 7: Bivalve shellfish aquaculture and eutrophication

Summary

Most commonly reported: localized changes associated with shellfish aquaculture

Interpretations from an ecosystem approach

Modeling efforts to assess relationships between bivalve aquaculture and eutrophication

Eutrophication of coastal waters from land-based nutrients

Ecological and economic benefit of bivalve aquaculture in combating eutrophication

Chapter 8: Mussel farming as a tool for re-eutrophication of coastal waters: experiences from Sweden

Mussel farming: open landscape feeding in the sea

Estimating the environmental value of mussel farming

Trading nutrient discharges

Agricultural environmental aid program and mussel farming

Added ecosystem services through mussel farming

The city of lysekil, the first buyer of a nutrient emission quota

Swedish mussel farming and its markets

Mussel meal instead of fish meal in organic feeds

Mussel meal in feeds for organic poultry

The use of the mussel remainder as fertilizer and biogas production

Risk assessment of mussels for seafood, feed, and fertilizer

Conclusions of the Swedish experience

Chapter 9: Expanding shellfish aquaculture: a review of the ecological services provided by and impacts of native and cultured bivalves in shellfish-dominated ecosystems

Aquaculture-based systems

Remaining questions

Literature cited.

Chapter 10: Bivalves as bioturbators and bioirrigators

Bivalves are key species in soft-sediment habitats

What are bioturbationand bioirrigation?

How do healthy soft-sediment bivalve populations affect their surroundings?

Chapter 11: Environmental impacts related to mechanical harvest of cultured shellfish

Literature review

Experimental design

Chapter 12: Genetics of shellfish on a human-dominated planet

Domestication of shellfish

Conservation

Chapter 13: Shellfish diseases and health management

Shellfish health management and infectious disease prevention

Interactions of bivalve shellfish and parasites with the natural environment

Interactions of hosts and disease agents within the aquaculture environment

Solutions: 1. Shellfish aquaculture development and health management

Solutions: 2. Implementing health management for shellfish aquaculture

Chapter 14: Marine invaders and bivalve aquaculture: sources, impacts, and consequences

Introduced shellfish from aquaculture

Species moved with aquaculture

Introduced species that impact aquaculture

Recommendations for minimizing spread and impacts of introductions

Future needs

Chapter 15: Balancing economic development and conservation of living marine resources and habitats: the role of resource managers

Regulatory framework for shellfish aquaculture in the United States

Environmental best management practices (BMPs)

Environmental marketing and other incentive programs

Chapter 16: Education

Skills

Aquaculture-related disciplines.

K-12 education

Undergraduate degree programs

Graduate degree programs

4-H and youth programs

Extension programs

Technology transfer

Chapter 17: The implications of global climate change for molluscan aquaculture

Climate change in the oceans and coastal zones

The effects of climate change on shellfish aquaculture systems

Adapting shellfish farming to climate change impacts

Shellfish aquaculture and climate change mitigation

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780470960943

0470960949

9780470960936

0470960930

9780470960967

0470960965

OCLC:

829462294