An Analysis of Nearly One Billion Dollars of Aquaculture Grants Made by the <scp>US</scp> Federal Government from 1990 to 2015

Gorski, Irena; Fry, Jillian P.

doi:10.1111/jwas.12425

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“…Aquaculture is oftentimes overlooked as a viable alternative to land-based agriculture. The policy environment in the U.S., for example, has yet to embrace aquaculture; federal spending from 1990 to 2015 was just over US$1 billion while agriculture spending was US$41 billion (Love, Gorski, & Fry, 2017).…”

Section: Sustainability Of Seafood Supplymentioning

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Making seafood accessible to low-income and nutritionally vulnerable populations on the U.S. West Coast

Koehn

Quinn

Otten

et al. 2020

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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Along the U.S. West Coast, sustainable management has rebuilt fish stocks, providing an opportunity to supply nutrient-rich food to adjacent coastal communities where food insecurity and diet-based diseases are common. However, the market has not successfully supplied locally sourced seafood to nutritionally vulnerable people. Rather, a few organizations make this connection on a limited scale. We used a “positive deviant” approach to learn how these organizations’ efforts developed, how they overcame challenges, and what conditions enabled their interventions. We found that organizations in these positive deviant cases provided fish from a wide variety of species and sources, and distributed them through different channels to a diversity of end consumers. A key factor facilitating success was the ability to negotiate a price point that was both profitable and reasonable for organizations supplying nutritionally vulnerable or low-income consumers. Furthermore, securing access to grants overcame initial costs of establishing new supply channels. All cases highlighted the importance of individual champions who encouraged development and cultural connections between the initiative and the nearby community. Organizations overcame key challenges by establishing regulations governing these new channels and either using partnerships or vertically integrating to reduce costs associated with processing and transport. Oftentimes training and education were also critical to instruct workers on how to process unfamiliar fish and to increase consumer awareness of local fish and how to prepare them. These lessons illuminate pathways to improve the contribution of local seafood to the healthy food system.

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Section: Sustainability Of Seafood Supplymentioning

confidence: 99%

Making seafood accessible to low-income and nutritionally vulnerable populations on the U.S. West Coast

Koehn

Quinn

Otten

et al. 2020

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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“…Although global production of farmed seaweed has experienced relatively slow growth in recent years, a renewed interest in sustainable foods, feeds, phycocolloids, and biofuel production has ignited groups in academia and industry to focus efforts on developing several species of macroalgae as commercial crops ( Kim et al, 2019 ). In fact, over the last 30 years, several US federal agencies, including the Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have invested nearly 1 billion dollars into developing the United States as a leader in aquaculture ( Kim et al, 2019 ; Love, Gorski, & Fry, 2017 ).…”

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Understanding the metabolome and metagenome as extended phenotypes: The next frontier in macroalgae domestication and improvement

DeWeese

Osborne

2021

J World Aquaculture Soc

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Omics" techniques (including genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, proteomics, and metagenomics) have been employed with huge success in the improvement of agricultural crops. As marine aquaculture of macroalgae expands globally, biologists are working to domesticate species of macroalgae by applying these techniques tested in agriculture to wild macroalgae species. Metabolomics has revealed metabolites and pathways that influence agriculturally relevant traits in crops, allowing for informed crop crossing schemes and genomic improvement strategies that would be pivotal to inform selection on macroalgae for domestication. Advances in metagenomics have improved understanding of host-symbiont interactions and the potential for microbial organisms to improve crop outcomes. There is much room in the field of macroalgal biology for further research toward improvement of macroalgae cultivars in aquaculture using metabolomic and metagenomic analyses.To this end, this review discusses the application and necessary expansion of the omics tool kit for macroalgae domestication as we move to enhance seaweed farming worldwide.Kelly J. DeWeese and Melisa G. Osborne contributed equally to this work.

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“…6 The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has a specific goal to grow marine aquaculture (coastal and offshore) 50% by 2020, 7 and NOAA as well as other government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are investing in growing the U.S. aquaculture sector. 8 Supporting and growing freshwater aquaculture is a priority for the USDA.…”

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Occupational Safety and Health in U.S. Aquaculture: A Review

Fry

Ceryes

Voorhees

et al. 2019

Journal of Agromedicine

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Objectives: Aquaculture encompasses a variety of species in both freshwater and marine settings and can combine elements of agriculture and fishing, two recognized hazardous occupations. Efforts are underway to expand the aquaculture sector in the United States (U.S.), and should be informed by occupational safety and health (OSH) research. The objectives of this review paper are to: i) describe the U.S. aquaculture sector, ii) summarize statistics, peer-reviewed studies, and reports focused on U.S. aquaculture OSH, and iii) describe the policy landscape specific to U.S. aquaculture OSH. Methods: Literature searches employed databases and Internet search engines to identify relevant peer-reviewed articles, reports, and other resources. Due to the expected U.S. expansion of marine aquaculture and paucity of peer-reviewed U.S.-based OSH literature in this sector, additional searches for international research on marine aquaculture were conducted. Results: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated high rates of illness and injury among U.S. aquaculture workers in 2014 and 2015. Peer-reviewed literature on aquaculture OSH identified numerous physical, chemical, and biological OSH risks depending on production methods and settings. Significant policy gaps exist regarding U.S. aquaculture OSH surveillance, reporting, and regulation. Conclusion: This review identifies a critical need for research, surveillance, and best practices information, specific to the major types of aquaculture in the U.S., to augment and inform worker safety and health efforts in this expanding sector.

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An Analysis of Nearly One Billion Dollars of Aquaculture Grants Made by the US Federal Government from 1990 to 2015

Cited by 17 publications

References 10 publications

Making seafood accessible to low-income and nutritionally vulnerable populations on the U.S. West Coast

Making seafood accessible to low-income and nutritionally vulnerable populations on the U.S. West Coast

Understanding the metabolome and metagenome as extended phenotypes: The next frontier in macroalgae domestication and improvement

Occupational Safety and Health in U.S. Aquaculture: A Review

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