Transforming Philippine agriculture and fisheries (AF) into a dynamic, high-growth sector is essential to poverty reduction, food security, and inclusive economic prosperity. However, unsustainable AF practices have impacts on the environment and climate, and at the same time, ecosystem...

Extraordinarily high returns in a sector based on the extraction of a natural resource can be referred to as resource rents. This study uses the National Accounts and the definitions of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting to calculate the resource rents in Norwegian aquaculture in...

Aquaculture falls within the scope of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) using the advantage of common market organization and financial measures as in integral part of this policy. Despite all these advantages, the results obtained from European aquaculture did not live up to expectations. Given...

African aquaculture production has gradually increased over the years, but progress is still slow. Given large variations between African countries with regard to the availability of water, the macro-economic context, access to capture fisheries resources and other factors, the performance of...

An increasing variety of exotic foods including shrimp and other seafood has become readily available for consumers in Austria as well as in other advanced countries. The development from seafood commanding the status of a delicacy served only at special occasions to becoming almost a household...

African aquaculture production has gradually increased over the years, but progress is still slow. Given large variations between African countries with regard to the availability of water, the macro-economic context, access to capture fisheries resources and other factors, the performance of...

The background of this study is related to the tendencies in caviar production and prices in the world. The objective of the study is to evaluate and compare the profitability of different sturgeon sex determination methods for the conditions of aquaculture farms in northern Israel. We present...

In 2017, the government of Norway introduced a new regulation, the Traffic Light System (TLS), which divides the Norwegian coast into 13 aquaculture production zones and labels them Red, Yellow, and Green based on the sea lice induced mortality rates in the wild stock. Production capacity should...

This study uses the National Accounts and the definitions of the UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting to calculate the resource rents in Norwegian aquaculture in the period 1984-2020. If we know the remuneration of all input factors such as capital, labour, and inter-mediates except...

Aquaculture is a globally expanding industry that contributed to feeding an increasing global population. Shellfish cultivation is one of the largest sectors of aquaculture and one of the few food productions that have the potential capacity of acting as carbon sink. In fact, more than 90% of...

Plastisphere refers to biofilm forming on microplastics (MPs) surface, but the difference in microbial communities between pelagic and benthic plastisphere and their subsequent functions especially driving biogeochemical cycle is rarely studied. Here, MPs were incubated for 28 d in pelagic...

For a common small- to medium-sized fish farm in an agricultural-based economy, monitoring costs is very important, since financial constraints are always a problem for these farmers. This will be thus easier if the farmers can get access to external funds. This paper used data envelopment...

Feed costs are a crucial factor in trout farms. For farmers endeavoring to maximize profitability, improving feed management is an essential consideration. The introduction of cork-enriched feed has been tested in the previous studies, which focused the technological and environmental...

Value chain development (VCD) has become a popular policy instrument to help farmers in developing countries access markets. While VCD initiated by the private sector has received much attention in the literature, there is yet little research on public-led VCD. This paper pro-vides a...

Extraordinarily high returns in a sector based on the extraction of a natural resource can be referred to as resource rents. This study uses the National Accounts and the definitions of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting to calculate the resource rents in Norwegian aquaculture in...

This study examines the Feasibility Study of the Marine Aquaculture Business in Indonesia. The study was conducted using a literature review method with a Semi-Systematic approach on two aspects, namely the first is the feasibility of investment using financial criteria parameters, the second is...

The World Bank has engaged with the government of Sri Lanka in an advisory services and analytics (ASA) work entitled priorities for sustainably managing Sri Lanka's marine fisheries, coastal aquaculture and the ecosystems that support them. The development objective of this ASA is to support...

Given the growing population and consumption, coupled with limited resources, sustainable ways of living are gaining importance in the modern world. This study aims to share knowledge regarding practices for transitioning from traditional business model (TBM) to sustainable business model (SBM)...