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Title: A Global Overview of Aquaculture Food Production with a Focus on the Activity’s Development in Transitional Systems—The Case Study of a South European Country (Portugal)
Authors: Rocha, Carolina P.
Cabral, Henrique N.
Marques, João C. 
Gonçalves, Ana M. M. 
Keywords: aquaculture; Portugal case study; rearing methods; transitional systems; world aquaculture production
Issue Date: 2022
Project: UIDB/04292/2020 
UIDP/50017/2020+UIDB/50017/2020 
FCT SRFH/BD/140922/2018 
University of Coimbra IT057-18-7253 
Serial title, monograph or event: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Volume: 10
Issue: 3
Abstract: World aquaculture food production rises every year, amounting, by 2018, to another all-time record of 82.1 million tonnes of farmed seafood, with Asia leading global production. In Europe, although coastal countries present historical fishing habits, aquaculture is in true expansion. Norway, the leading European producer, is the eighth main producer worldwide. Portugal is a traditional fishing country but has invested in the development of aquaculture for the past decade, attaining, by 2018, 13.3 tonnes produced, making Portugal the 16th main producer amongst European Union member states that year. Most Portuguese aquaculture facilities operate in coastal systems, resorting to extensive and semi-intensive rearing techniques. In Portugal, marine food production in transitional systems is particularly interesting as the practice has, worldwide, been continuously substituted by intensive methods. In fact, facilities in transitional systems have developed over time and products gained higher commercial value. Clams and oysters corresponded, together, to over three quarters of total mollusc production in Portugal in 2018, while gilthead seabream and European seabass made up nearly all fish production in coastal environments. The state of aquaculture practices worldwide is reviewed in the present work, providing a particular focus on Portugal, where considerable development of the aquaculture sector is expected.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/100475
ISSN: 2077-1312
DOI: 10.3390/jmse10030417
Rights: openAccess
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