School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA.
School of Forest, Fisheries and Geomatics Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA.
Nat Commun. 2024 Jun 20;15(1):5274. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-49556-8.
Aquaculture is a rapidly growing food production technology, but there are significant concerns related to its environmental impact and adverse social effects. We examine aquaculture outcomes in a three pillars of sustainability framework by analyzing data collected using the Aquaculture Performance Indicators. Using this approach, comparable data has been collected for 57 aquaculture systems worldwide on 88 metrics that measure social, economic, or environmental outcomes. We first examine the relationships among the three pillars of sustainability and then analyze performance in the three pillars by technology and species. The results show that economic, social, and environmental outcomes are, on average, mutually reinforced in global aquaculture systems. However, the analysis also shows significant variation in the degree of sustainability in different aquaculture systems, and weak performance of some production systems in some dimensions provides opportunity for innovative policy measures and investment to further align sustainability objectives.
水产养殖是一种快速发展的食品生产技术，但它存在着重大的环境影响和负面的社会影响问题。我们通过分析使用水产养殖绩效指标收集的数据，在可持续发展的三个支柱框架内研究水产养殖的结果。采用这种方法，我们已经在全球范围内的 57 个水产养殖系统中收集了 88 项衡量社会、经济或环境成果的指标的可比数据。我们首先检验了可持续发展的三个支柱之间的关系，然后按技术和物种分析了三个支柱的绩效。结果表明，全球水产养殖系统中的经济、社会和环境成果平均上是相互加强的。然而，分析也表明，不同水产养殖系统的可持续性程度存在显著差异，一些生产系统在某些方面的表现不佳，为创新性的政策措施和投资提供了机会，以进一步使可持续发展目标保持一致。
