This book provides a scientific forecast of development in aquaculture with a focus on the environmental, technological, social and economic constraints that need to be resolved to ensure sustainable development of the industry and allow the industry to be able to feed healthy seafood products to future generations. The book represents the first interdisciplinary approach to aquaculture management. The chapters discuss the most critical bottlenecks of the development. They further cover the current trends within the development of aquafeeds along with human health aspects as well as the political, socio-economic and economic trends within the industry. A chapter on approaches taken by Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to aquaculture is included. The final chapter provides different future scenarios of the industry based on the identified bottlenecks.

Zusammenfassung
Aquaculture in the Ecosystem An Introduction The growth of Aquaculture and its future role as a food supplier to human society has environmental, social and economic limitations, affecting marine ecosystems and socio-economic scales from local to global. These are close links with human health requirements and societal needs for various goods and services provided by marine ecosystems. This book shows this broad spectrum of dependencies of the future growth of aquaculture and highlights both relevant problems and expectations. Compensating for stagnant wild capture fisheries and the increasing demand for marine products, marine aquaculture is one of the fastest growing industries in the world, comparable to the computer technology industry (Chapters 9 and 10). The demand for marine products is controlled by a complexity of factors in our society, not least the increasing human population and the increasing global affluence that allows the consumer to buy higher priced marine products such as salmon, tuna and shellfish (Chapter 9). The populations of several of these top-carnivore species are seriously compromised and it will be impossible in the future to maintain wild c- tures at the level of consumer demand. In less affluent areas including SE Asia and Africa, aquaculture for both domestic consumption and export has major nutritional and economic benefits. The production of fish in aquaculture is thus expected to increase under the assumption that the bottlenecks for expansion can be overcome (Chapter 10).

Inhalt
Fish Farm Wastes in the Ecosystem.- Monitoring of Environmental Impacts of Marine Aquaculture.- Aquaculture and Coastal Space Management in Europe: An Ecological Perspective.- Detrimental Genetic Effects of Interactions Between Reared Strains and Wild Populations of Marine and Anadromous Fish and Invertebrate Species.- Non-Native Aquaculture Species Releases: Implications for Aquatic Ecosystems.- Safe and Nutritious Aquaculture Produce: Benefits and Risks of Alternative Sustainable Aquafeeds.- NGO Approaches to Minimizing the Impacts of Aquaculture: A Review.- Aquaculture in the Coastal Zone: Pressures, Interactions and Externalities.- Future Trends in Aquaculture: Productivity Growth and Increased Production.- Status and Future Perspectives of Marine Aquaculture.