First book-length collaborative study of the social context, future and consequences of aquaculture in Canada
A blend of perspectives: Canadian and European academic chapters with commentaries from commentators who work in the private and public sectors
First Nations perspectives offered by First Nations members
Epilogue `from the outside looking in,´ Barry Costa-Pierce of the University of Rhode Island offers a comparative American perspective on the Canadian experience of industrializing aquaculture
Keith Culver and David Castle Introduction Aquaculture is at the leading edge of a surprisingly polarized debate about the way we produce our food. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, aquaculture production has increased 8. 8% per year since 1970, far surpassing productivity gains in terrestrial meat production at 2. 8% in the same period (FAO 2007). Like the `green revolution´ before it, the `blue revolution´ in aquaculture promises rapidly increased productivity through technology-driven - tensi?cation of aquaculture animal and plant production (Costa-Pierce 2002; The Economist 2003). Proponents of further aquaculture development emphasize aq- culture´s ancient origins and potential to contribute to global food security d- ing an unprecedented collapse in global ?sheries (World Fish Center; Meyers and Worm 2003; Worm et al. 2006). For them, technology-driven intensi?cation is an - dinary and unremarkable extension of past practice. Opponents counter with images of marine and freshwater environments devastated by intensive aquaculture pr- tices producing unsustainable and unhealthy food products. They view the promised revolutionasascam,nothingmorethanclever marketingbypro?t-hungry ?shfa- ers looking for ways to distract the public from the real harms done by aquaculture. The stark contrast between proponents and opponents of modern aquaculture recalls decades of disputes about intensive terrestrial plant and animal agriculture, disputes whose vigor shows that the debate is about much more than food production (Ruse and Castle 2002).
Aquaculture, Innovation and Social TransformationEdited by Keith Culver and David CastleTable of Contents0.0 Keith Culver and David Castle: Editors´ General Introduction1.0 Animal welfare in aquaculture1.1 Felicity Huntingford: Animal Welfare in Aquaculture1.2 Gilly Griffin: Science and Governance Issues in Aquaculture Animal Welfare1.3 Sunil Kadri: Welfare and Aquaculture Industry Practice2.0 Knowledge management and intellectual property issues2.1 Keith Culver: The Mark of Innovation in Aquaculture: the Role of Intangible Assets2.2 Brad Hicks: New School Fish Production vs Old School Fish Harvesting2.3 Tom Sephton: Return on Investment or How Not to Pay Commercial Licenses for Your Own Technology3.0 The environmental sustainability of aquaculture3.1 Kenneth Black: Environmental Aspects of Aquaculture3.2 Marc Saner: Ethics, Governance and Regulation and the Environmental Aspects of Aquaculture3.3 Fiona Cubitt, Kevin Butterworth and Scott McKinley: A Synopsis of Environmental Issues Associated with Salmon Aquaculture in Canada4.0 The interaction between traditional knowledge and modern aquaculture4.1 Larry Felt: 'It all depends on the lens, B´y'*: Local Ecological Knowledge and Institutional Science in an Expanding Finfish Aquaculture Sector4.2 Teresa Ryan: 'S´kuu see': Integrating Forms of Knowledge4.3 Marcel Shepert: Oral History and Traditional Ecological Knowledge5.0 Messages, consumers and aquaculture: new products; new worries5.1 David Castle and Karen Finlay: Public Engagement Regarding Aquaculture Products Produced Through Biotechnology5.2 Frode Nilssen: Consumers and Aquaculture, New Products - New worries5.3 Kenny McCaffrey: Aquaculture Innovation and the Role of Popular and TradeMedia6.0 The final frontier: integrated coastal zone management6.1 Dan Lane, Wojtek Michalowski, Robert Stephenson and Fred Page: Integrated Systems Analysis for Marine Site Evaluations and Multicriteria Decision Support for Coastal Aquaculture6.2 Jamey Smith: Integrated Systems Analysis for Marine Site Evaluation: Appropriate for the Canadian Marine Farming Industry?6.3 Thierry Chopin: Models for Analysis and Practical Realities of Marine Aquaculture Siting7.0 New practices for global competitiveness: alternate species, alternate uses, and value-added aquaculture7.1 Jeremy Rayner: Governance for global competitiveness: the future of aquaculture policy in a world turned upside down7.2 Paul Lyon: Consumer Confidence, Food Safety, and Salmon Farming7.3 Colin Barrow: Aquaculture Policies for Global Competitiveness: An Industry Perspective8.0 Barry Costa-Pierce: Epilogue9.0 Jaques Paynter: Workshop Report
Aquaculture, Innovation and Social Transformation presents and interprets Canadian and international perspectives on the debate over the future of aquaculture in Canada.
Original chapters examine:
- animal welfare;
- knowledge management and intellectual property;
- environmental sustainability;
- local, traditional, and aboriginal knowledge;
- consumers;
- and integrated coastal zone management.
Authors of principal chapters are drawn from Canadian and European universities, while commentators are drawn from Canadian government and private sectors. This structure results in a deliberately engineered collision of diverse habits of thought and dissimilar bases of knowledge. In that collision the problems, options, and possible future of aquaculture are both explicitly argued, and shown in the interaction between authors and perspectives.
Of particular note is the inclusion of perspectives written by First Nations members, and an epilogue from the comparative perspective of US experience.
This book will be of interest to those concerned with the social effects of intensification of food production, food security, scholars of technology, environment-focussed researchers, and anyone who cares about the future of the world´s oceans.
This volume is unique in its depiction of the nature and complexity of the social dimensions of the choice to farm the ocean.
From the reviews:
"Presents oppositional evidence around seven contentious issues surrounding aquaculture in an advanced industrial country ... . very interesting book–and a way to learn about aquaculture as a future source of animal protein. ... required reading for those interested in aquaculture as a source of food and trade. It is also useful for scholars of ethics, knowledge, and governance of production and natural resources. ... Contested knowledges, particularly of impacts, of both scientists and fishers is the basis of governance in times of rapid change.” (Cornelia Butler Flora, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 23, 2010)
This book presents and interprets Canadian and international perspectives on the debate over the future of aquaculture in Canada. It is unique in its depiction of the nature and complexity of the social dimensions of the choice to farm the ocean.
Keith Culver and David Castle Introduction Aquaculture is at the leading edge of a surprisingly polarized debate about the way we produce our food. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, aquaculture production has increased 8. 8% per year since 1970, far surpassing productivity gains in terrestrial meat production at 2. 8% in the same period (FAO 2007). Like the 'green revolution' before it, the 'blue revolution' in aquaculture promises rapidly increased productivity through technology-driven - tensi?cation of aquaculture animal and plant production (Costa-Pierce 2002; The Economist 2003). Proponents of further aquaculture development emphasize aq- culture's ancient origins and potential to contribute to global food security d- ing an unprecedented collapse in global ?sheries (World Fish Center; Meyers and Worm 2003; Worm et al. 2006). For them, technology-driven intensi?cation is an - dinary and unremarkable extension of past practice. Opponents counter with images of marine and freshwater environments devastated by intensive aquaculture pr- tices producing unsustainable and unhealthy food products. They view the promised revolutionasascam,nothingmorethanclever marketingbypro?t-hungry ?shfa- ers looking for ways to distract the public from the real harms done by aquaculture. The stark contrast between proponents and opponents of modern aquaculture recalls decades of disputes about intensive terrestrial plant and animal agriculture, disputes whose vigor shows that the debate is about much more than food production (Ruse and Castle 2002).
Editors' Introduction.- Editors' Introduction.- Animal Welfare in Aquaculture.- Animal Welfare in Aquaculture.- Science and Governance Issues in Aquaculture AnimalWelfare.- Welfare and Aquaculture Industry Practice.- Knowledge Management and Intellectual Property Issues in Aquaculture.- The Mark of Innovation in Aquaculture: The Role of Intangible Assets.- New School Fish Production vs Old School Fish Harvesting.- Return on Investment or How Not to Pay Commercial Licenses for Your Own Technology.- The Environmental Sustainability of Aquaculture.- Environmental Aspects of Aquaculture.- Ethics, Governance and Regulation.- A Synopsis of Environmental Issues Associated with Salmon Aquaculture in Canada.- The Interaction Between Traditional and Local Knowledge, and Modern Aquaculture.- "It All Depends on the Lens, B'y"1: Local Ecological Knowledge and Institutional Science in an Expanding Finfish Aquaculture Sector.- "S'kuu See": Integrating Forms of Knowledge.- Oral History and Traditional Ecological Knowledge.- Messages, Consumers and Aquaculture: New Products, New Worries.- Public Engagement Regarding Aquaculture Products Produced Through Biotechnology.- Consumers and Aquaculture, New Products - New Worries.- Aquaculture Innovation and the Role of Popular and Trade Media.- The Final Frontier: Integrated Coastal Zone Management.- Integrated Systems Analysis for Marine Site Evaluations and Multicriteria Decision Support for Coastal Aquaculture.- Integrated Systems Analysis for Marine Site Evaluation: Appropriate for the Canadian Marine Farming Industry?.- Models for Analysis and Practical Realities of Marine Aquaculure Siting.- New practices for Global Competitiveness: Alternate Species, Alternate Uses, and Value-Added Aquaculture.- Governance for GlobalCompetitiveness: The Future of Aquaculture Policy in aWorld Turned Upside Down.- Consumer Confidence, Food Safety, and Salmon Farming.- Aquaculture Policies for Global Competitiveness: An Industry Perspective.
From the reviews:
"Presents oppositional evidence around seven contentious issues surrounding aquaculture in an advanced industrial country ... . very interesting book-and a way to learn about aquaculture as a future source of animal protein. ... required reading for those interested in aquaculture as a source of food and trade. It is also useful for scholars of ethics, knowledge, and governance of production and natural resources. ... Contested knowledges, particularly of impacts, of both scientists and fishers is the basis of governance in times of rapid change." (Cornelia Butler Flora, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 23, 2010)
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Aquaculture, Innovation and Social Transformation
Edited by Keith Culver and David Castle
Table of Contents
0.0 Keith Culver and David Castle: Editors' General Introduction
1.0 Animal welfare in aquaculture
1.1 Felicity Huntingford: Animal Welfare in Aquaculture
1.2 Gilly Griffin: Science and Governance Issues in Aquaculture Animal Welfare
1.3 Sunil Kadri: Welfare and Aquaculture Industry Practice
2.0 Knowledge management and intellectual property issues
2.1 Keith Culver: The Mark of Innovation in Aquaculture: the Role of Intangible Assets
2.2 Brad Hicks: New School Fish Production vs Old School Fish Harvesting
2.3 Tom Sephton: Return on Investment or How Not to Pay Commercial Licenses for Your Own Technology
3.0 The environmental sustainability of aquaculture
3.1 Kenneth Black: Environmental Aspects of Aquaculture
3.2 Marc Saner: Ethics, Governance and Regulation and the Environmental Aspects of Aquaculture
3.3 Fiona Cubitt, Kevin Butterworth and Scott McKinley: A Synopsis of Environmental Issues Associated with Salmon Aquaculture in Canada
4.0 The interaction between traditional knowledge and modern aquaculture
4.1 Larry Felt: 'It all depends on the lens, B'y'*: Local Ecological Knowledge and Institutional Science in an Expanding Finfish Aquaculture Sector
4.2 Teresa Ryan: 'S'kuu see': Integrating Forms of Knowledge
4.3 Marcel Shepert: Oral History and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
5.0 Messages, consumers and aquaculture: new products; new worries
5.1 David Castle and Karen Finlay: Public Engagement Regarding Aquaculture Products Produced Through Biotechnology
5.2 Frode Nilssen: Consumers and Aquaculture, New Products - New worries
5.3 Kenny McCaffrey: Aquaculture Innovation and the Role of Popular and TradeMedia
6.0 The final frontier: integrated coastal zone management
6.1 Dan Lane, Wojtek Michalowski, Robert Stephenson and Fred Page: Integrated Systems Analysis for Marine Site Evaluations and Multicriteria Decision Support for Coastal Aquaculture
6.2 Jamey Smith: Integrated Systems Analysis for Marine Site Evaluation: Appropriate for the Canadian Marine Farming Industry?
6.3 Thierry Chopin: Models for Analysis and Practical Realities of Marine Aquaculture Siting
7.0 New practices for global competitiveness: alternate species, alternate uses, and value-added aquaculture
7.1 Jeremy Rayner: Governance for global competitiveness: the future of aquaculture policy in a world turned upside down
7.2 Paul Lyon: Consumer Confidence, Food Safety, and Salmon Farming
7.3 Colin Barrow: Aquaculture Policies for Global Competitiveness: An Industry Perspective
8.0 Barry Costa-Pierce: Epilogue
9.0 Jaques Paynter: Workshop Report
Klappentext
Keith Culver and David Castle Introduction Aquaculture is at the leading edge of a surprisingly polarized debate about the way we produce our food. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, aquaculture production has increased 8. 8% per year since 1970, far surpassing productivity gains in terrestrial meat production at 2. 8% in the same period (FAO 2007). Like the 'green revolution' before it, the 'blue revolution' in aquaculture promises rapidly increased productivity through technology-driven - tensi?cation of aquaculture animal and plant production (Costa-Pierce 2002; The Economist 2003). Proponents of further aquaculture development emphasize aq- culture's ancient origins and potential to contribute to global food security d- ing an unprecedented collapse in global ?sheries (World Fish Center; Meyers and Worm 2003; Worm et al. 2006). For them, technology-driven intensi?cation is an - dinary and unremarkable extension of past practice. Opponents counter with images of marine and freshwater environments devastated by intensive aquaculture pr- tices producing unsustainable and unhealthy food products. They view the promised revolutionasascam,nothingmorethanclever marketingbypro?t-hungry ?shfa- ers looking for ways to distract the public from the real harms done by aquaculture. The stark contrast between proponents and opponents of modern aquaculture recalls decades of disputes about intensive terrestrial plant and animal agriculture, disputes whose vigor shows that the debate is about much more than food production (Ruse and Castle 2002).
First book-length collaborative study of the social context, future and consequences of aquaculture in Canada
A blend of perspectives: Canadian and European academic chapters with commentaries from commentators who work in the private and public sectors
First Nations perspectives offered by First Nations members
Epilogue 'from the outside looking in,' Barry Costa-Pierce of the University of Rhode Island offers a comparative American perspective on the Canadian experience of industrializing aquaculture
