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Aquaculture system diversity and sustainable development: fish farms and their representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2010

Jérôme Lazard ,
Aurèle Baruthio ,
Syndhia Mathé ,
Hélène Rey-Valette ,
Eduardo Chia ,
Olivier Clément ,
Joël Aubin ,
Pierre Morissens ,
Olivier Mikolasek  and
Marc Legendre
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Jérôme Lazard*
Affiliation:
CIRAD, UR Aquaculture et gestion des ressources aquatiques, TA B-20/01, avenue Agropolis, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Aurèle Baruthio
Affiliation:
CIRAD, UR Aquaculture et gestion des ressources aquatiques, TA B-20/01, avenue Agropolis, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France INRA, UMR Sol Agronomie Spatialisation, 65 rue de St Brieuc, CS 84215, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France
Syndhia Mathé
Affiliation:
Université de Montpellier 1, Faculté de Sciences économiques, CS 79606, 34960 Montpellier Cedex 2, France
Hélène Rey-Valette
Affiliation:
Université de Montpellier 1, Faculté de Sciences économiques, CS 79606, 34960 Montpellier Cedex 2, France
Eduardo Chia
Affiliation:
INRA/CIRAD, UMR Innovation, 2 place Viala, 34000 Montpellier, France
Olivier Clément
Affiliation:
INRA, UMR Nuage, Pôle d’hydrobiologie, Quartier Ibarron, 34310 Saint Pée sur Nivelle, France
Joël Aubin
Affiliation:
INRA, UMR Sol Agronomie Spatialisation, 65 rue de St Brieuc, CS 84215, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France
Pierre Morissens
Affiliation:
CIRAD, UR Aquaculture et gestion des ressources aquatiques, TA B-20/01, avenue Agropolis, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Olivier Mikolasek
Affiliation:
CIRAD, UR Aquaculture et gestion des ressources aquatiques, TA B-20/01, avenue Agropolis, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Marc Legendre
Affiliation:
IRD, UR 175, Gamet, BP 5095, 34196 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Patrice Levang
Affiliation:
IRD, UR 168, Jalan Taman Kemang 32B, Jakarta, 12730, Indonesia
Jean-Paul Blancheton
Affiliation:
IFREMER, chemin de Maguelone, 34250 Palavas-les-Flots, France
François René
Affiliation:
IFREMER, chemin de Maguelone, 34250 Palavas-les-Flots, France
*
aCorresponding author: jerome.lazard@cirad.fr
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Abstract

Initiatives for the sustainable development of aquaculture have so far focused on the production of codes of conduct, of best management practices, of standards etc., most of which have been developed by international organisations, the industrial sector and non governmental organisations. They were, to a large extent, produced using a “top down” process and inspired by models from intensive industrial shrimp and sea fish farming (mainly salmon). However, most of global aquaculture production comes from small- and medium-sized farms, essentially in Asia which contributes 92% of the total world aquaculture production volume. The objective of this article is to define the contours of systemic typologies that are able to express the sustainability conditions of aquaculture systems. The proposed approach builds on surveys of aquaculture systems which differ in terms of their biogeographical nature (temperate/tropical and north/south countries) or their farming techniques and their governance systems. This work is a prerequisite to any attempt at an individualised and comparative evaluation of specific aquaculture systems from either global or territorial viewpoints. In order to go beyond the cleavage of a typology based on the differentiation between developed and developing countries, three typologies were produced. These typologies allow for discriminatory variables to be identified such as for example the marketing methods or the pace of innovation: a structural typology, a functional typology and a systemic typology. Finally, the representations of aquaculture activity and of its sustainability that producers have of the 4 different types that emerge from the systemic typology were recorded and analyzed.

Keywords

Sustainable developmentSustainable aquacultureTypologySocial representations
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Research Article
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Aquatic Living Resources , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 2010 , pp. 187 - 198
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© EDP Sciences, IFREMER, IRD 2010

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