Sustainability indicators for salmon aquaculture

Amundsen, Vilde Steiro; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2018.07.043

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“…However, not all ecosystems can be conserved unaltered (Brundtland, 1987). Principles of sustainability include three dimensions: (1) the economy (ability to be maintained without an outside influx of money; Copus and Crabtree, 1996), (2) the society [equity and cultural capital that can be passed to succeeding generations (Copus and Crabtree, 1996)], and (3) the environment [maintenance of an ecosystem's characteristic diversity, productivity and biogeochemical cycling (Amundsen and Osmundsen, 2018)]. In this chapter, we focus on environmental aspects of sustainability.…”

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Towards Environmental Sustainability in Marine Finfish Aquaculture

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Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food production sectors and has great potential for food security and livelihoods. However, it generates concerning consequences for the environment, including chemical and biological pollution, disease outbreaks, unsustainable feeds and competition for coastal space. Recent investigations are focusing on sustainable techniques (e.g., polyculture, offshore facilities) to improve the relationship between the industry, environment and society. This review provides an overview of the main factors of ecological concern within marine finfish aquaculture, their interactions with the environment, and highlights sustainable alternatives that are currently in use or development. Adequate environmental monitoring and location of farms, the reduction and exploitation of wastes and chemicals being used is crucial to ensure the growth and continuity of aquaculture production.

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“…Additionally, we utilized the codification of these 1916 indicators according to 28 different topics relevant for making the aquaculture industry sustainable, as provided by Amundsen and Osmundsen (2018). Based on this work, we were able to identify which groups of indicators pertain to issues directly affecting the site and the company, and which address broader scale impacts of aquaculture production.…”

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Level up or game over: the implications of levels of impact in certification schemes for salmon aquaculture

Amundsen

Gauteplass²,

Bailey

2019

Aquaculture Economics & Management

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Certification schemes are becoming increasingly important within aquaculture management, but the indicators that are used by these schemes are subject to considerable debate. Many have questioned their actual impact on improving the industry, and whether they effectively address the many externalities of aquaculture production. In this paper, we study the choice of indicators in eight major certification scheme standards for salmon aquaculture and examine to what degree they manage to address impacts beyond individual production sites. We find that, in accordance with the criticism, the majority of indicators pertain only to the site-level. However, indicators related to traceability, and to coordination and sharing of information among producers can elevate local concerns to a higher level of impact. We, therefore, argue that among all the certification scheme standards considered here, these types of indicators should be emphasized to a larger extent.

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“…This work has resulted in a searchable database of 1916 indicators, with a total of 2830 categorizations. See Amundsen & Osmundsen [5] for details.…”

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“…These voluntary programs come in addition to national regulations, which are intended to enable aquaculture companies to both improve their production processes and display these improvements to consumers, retailers, and national authorities [3,4]. By demonstrating compliance with the indicator requirements of set standards, aquaculture companies can become certified according to numerous schemes that address various topics related to responsible production, e.g., animal welfare, food safety, environmental conservation, and social assurance [5]. Compliance is typically assessed through inspections and a thorough review of documentation conducted by a third-party auditor.…”

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Virtually the Reality: Negotiating the Distance between Standards and Local Realities When Certifying Sustainable Aquaculture

Amundsen

Osmundsen

2019

Sustainability

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To account for the many challenges of increasingly global industries, remote regulation measures such as sustainability standards have become continuously more important as a means to ensure global accountability and transparency. As standard certification is assessed through audits, the legitimacy of these standards rests on uncritically evoked norms of auditing, such as independence and objectivity. In this paper, we seek to investigate the claim of these norms as a prerequisite for the audit process of sustainability standards. Based on interviews and fieldwork in the salmon aquaculture industry, we explore how it is possible to concurrently uphold the standard and account for the different conditions of the many local realities. Our findings point to the interactional character of audits, often downplayed for legitimacy purposes, and how this is vital to achieve both ‘distance for neutrality’ and ‘proximity for knowledge production’. We argue for increased transparency concerning the human element of sustainability auditing, thus acknowledging the significance of reciprocal knowledge production when using standards as a route towards sustainability.

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Sustainability indicators for salmon aquaculture

Cited by 21 publications

References 6 publications

Towards Environmental Sustainability in Marine Finfish Aquaculture

Towards Environmental Sustainability in Marine Finfish Aquaculture

Level up or game over: the implications of levels of impact in certification schemes for salmon aquaculture

Virtually the Reality: Negotiating the Distance between Standards and Local Realities When Certifying Sustainable Aquaculture

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