Decision Support Systems in Fisheries and Aquaculture: A systematic review

Aquaculture production optimisation in multi-cage farms subject to commercial and operational constraints

“…Furthermore, the possibility of considering new ways of production, with their own legal requirements in terms of feed ingredients or maximum stocking density, constitutes another advantage, mainly in terms of adapting to the new ecological global trend. These improvements have been directly pointed out in many previous studies, highlighting the complexity of integrating more than one cage or production unit (Llorente and Luna, 2014) and the absence of well-documented multi-criteria systems for aquaculture (Mathisen, 2016) Furthermore, the decision to consider operational and commercial constraints has meant an added difficulty when addressing the problem of decision-making in aquaculture. However, it has proven to be a well-founded decision, as the existence of labour and market constraints regarding maximum weekly production is inevitable in this sector.…”

“…Furthermore, they have been successfully applied in many domains where decisions have to be made in the presence of multiple objectives and subjective criteria which usually enter into conflict, as in the case of aquaculture (Tzeng and Huang, 2011). However, several review papers, from Mardle and Pascoe (1999) to Mathisen et al (2016), have highlighted the few publications on multi-criteria decision-making within this sector compared to other fields. Moreover, in those cases in which this approach has already been applied, it only addresses very specific problems, such as site selection (Dapueto et al 2015;Shih, 2017).…”