Marine seafood production via intense exploitation and cultivation in China: Costs, benefits, and risks.

ABSTRACT: Identifying strategies to maintain seafood supply is central to global food supply. China is the world's largest producer of seafood and has used a variety of production methods in the ocean including domestic capture fisheries, aquaculture (both freshwater and marine), stock enhancement, artificial reef building, and distant water fisheries. Here we survey the outcomes of China's marine seafood production strategies, with particular attention paid to the associated costs, benefits, and risks. Benefits identified include high production, low management costs, and high employment, but significant costs and risks were also identified. For example, a majority of fish in China's catches are one year-old, ecosystem and catch composition has changed relative to the past, wild and farmed stocks c

SUBMITTER: Szuwalski C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6968841 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature