Aquaculture producers currently shoulder too much of the responsibility for sustainability, according to a new study, whose authors argue that seafood sustainability should be redefined so that it covers a wider range of social and environmental aspects, thus making more players in the value chain accountable.
Non-government organisations, private companies and policy makers across the globe are trying to improve the sustainability of seafood production. Since the 1990s, the traditional approach has been to encourage both the fisheries and aquaculture sectors to follow more sustainable production strategies. But what do these measures actually encompass? How is sustainability itself defined?…
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