Using ecosystem health and welfare assessments to determine impacts of wild collection for public aquariums.

ABSTRACT: Aquatic ecosystems are currently facing a multitude of stressors from anthropogenic impacts, including climate change, pollution, and overfishing. Public aquariums positively contribute to ecosystems through conservation, education, and scientific advancement; but may also negatively detract from these systems through collection of animals from the wild and sourcing from commercial suppliers. Changes within the industry have occurred, although evidence-based assessments of 1) how aquariums collect and maintain their populations to determine sustainability of the environment they have harvested; and 2) the welfare of these harvested animals once within the aquariums are still needed. The objectives of this study were to assess the ecosystem health of locations aquariums frequently visit to

SUBMITTER: Fischer B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10153729 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature