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REVIEWS IN AQUACULTURE
Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages 1115-1141Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/raq.12766
Keywords
aquaculture; circular economy; fisheries; insects; scavenger; sustainability
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This review describes the role and importance of 'blue-food production' in a circular bioeconomy, particularly in improving the sustainability and resilience of aquaculture. It also discusses emerging nutrient sources for fed-aquaculture species.
The aims of this review are to describe the role of 'blue-food production' (animals, plants and algae harvested from freshwater and marine environments) within a circular bioeconomy, discuss how such a framework can help the sustainability and resilience of aquaculture and to summarise key examples of novel nutrient sources that are emerging in the field of fed-aquaculture species. Aquaculture now provides >50% of the global seafood supply, a share that is expected to increase to at least 60% within the next decade. Aquaculture is an important tool for reducing resource consumption in global protein production and increasing resilience to climate change and other global disruptions (i.e. pandemics, geo-political instability). Importantly, blue foods also provide essential nutrition for a growing human population. Blue foods are helping to help the global goal of 'zero hunger' (United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 2) while reducing the dependency on finite natural resources but further refinement and new solutions are needed to make the industry more 'circular' and sustainable, particularly with respect to sourcing raw materials for aquafeeds. This review describes the feed resources that are available or may be created within a circular bioeconomy framework, their role within the framework and in aquaculture and ultimately, how these resources contribute to de-risking and establishing a resilient aquaculture production chain.
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