Marine Ranching Construction and Management in East China Sea: Programs for Sustainable Fishery and Aquaculture

Zhou, Xi; Xu, Zhao; Zhang, Shouyu; Lin, Jinxiu

doi:10.3390/w11061237

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“…New approaches to aquaculture have been recently proposed aiming at reducing habitat degradation, among other benefits (Barrington et al, 2010;Granada et al, 2016;Gunning et al, 2016;Nardelli et al, 2019;Zhou et al, 2019). However, such novel and frequently costly approaches may be considered unnecessary, if site conditions allow for the operation of aquaculture production without noticeable environmental impacts.…”

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Coastal Water Quality in an Atlantic Sea Bass Farm Site (Sines, Portugal): A First Assessment

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Aquaculture has become the fastest-growing sector of the food industry worldwide. The increase of intensive aquaculture practices, however, has been raising global concern about economic and social impacts, but mostly due to the associated potential environmental impacts. The aim of this report is to make a preliminary assessment of the impact of an intensive sea bass aquaculture (Dicentrarchus labrax, L. 1758) on surrounding coastal waters. The aquaculture site is located at the SW Iberian coast (Sines, Portugal), having 16 cages, each holding approximately 150,000 specimens at different stages of growth. We present a spatial and temporal description of environmental physical, chemical, and biological parameters taken in the course of four monitoring campaigns conducted between June 2018 and April 2019. All monitored parameters, except phosphate concentration in October only at one sampling station, showed values within the desirable ranges for marine finfish production and the natural range of Portuguese coastal waters. So far, results do not reveal any detrimental impact of the production units on local water quality, although more research is needed. The preliminary findings suggest that the lack of stress on the receiving waters may be attributed to the hydrodynamic regime in the production area, the feeding strategy, and the dimension of the production.

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Coastal Water Quality in an Atlantic Sea Bass Farm Site (Sines, Portugal): A First Assessment

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“…A marine ranch is concerned with the sustainable development of marine ecology, marine economy, and fishery production. Several countries, such as China [2], Japan [3], Australia [4], and Norway [5], consider marine ranching as the most promising method to increase fishery resources and stock, and promote sustainable development of fishery resources. In recent years, many researchers have noticed the important role of marine ranching.…”

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Ecological Security Evaluation of Marine Ranching Based on DEMATEL-Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation

Fang

Ping

2021

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Marine ranching plays an integral role in providing fishery resources. Given the critical importance of protecting the marine ecological system, the ecological security evaluation of marine ranching is significant. However, the existing research rarely involves marine ranching ecological security (MRES) evaluation and does not provide a complete evaluation index system. The purpose of the present study was to estimate MRES through several steps and evaluate it scientifically by fully considering the relationship between the factors. First, the evaluation index system was structured using the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework by following certain principles. Second, the study applied the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (FCE) method to assess MRES. Third, a case study of a marine ranching in the Shandong Province was discussed to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method. This also illustrated the steps of the evaluation. In this case study, the result of the MRES evaluation was graded as excellent. The results demonstrate that using these methods to evaluate MRES can account for the complex relationships between the factors and the cognitive ability of the experts and thus integrate the experts’ information comprehensively, which adds to the credibility of the evaluation results.

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“…Recent studies [54][55][56] have shown that turbulence may also affect the feeding of marine organisms such as plankton and other fish. Furthermore, turbulent motions in the surrounding flows can be important also for the encounters of aquatic microorganisms and their prey by bringing predators and prey close from time to time and thereby enhancing the probability of capture even without relying on self-induced motions [57][58][59][60][61]. Nevertheless, sometimes, turbulence can also provide organisms with hydrodynamic signals that may be wrongly interpreted as generated by an approaching predator, which may affect their behavior and the energetic cost of swimming [62].…”

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An Experimental Investigation of Turbulence Features Induced by Typical Artificial M-Shaped Unit Reefs

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Artificial reefs are considered to have the function of repairing and improving the coastal habitat and increasing the fishery production, which are mainly achieved by changing the regional hydrodynamic conditions. The characteristics of flow turbulence structure are an important part of the regional hydrodynamic characteristics. Different methods are used to evaluate the performance of artificial reefs according to their shape and the purpose for which the reef was built. For this study, the M-shaped unit reefs, which are to be put into the area of Liaodong Bay, were selected as the research object and have never been fully investigated before. Experimental tests were conducted to assess the effect of these M-shaped artificial reefs on the vertical and longitudinal turbulent intensity under different hydraulic conditions and geometries, and datasets were collected by using the Particle Image Velocimetry technique implemented within the experimental facility. The distribution and variation characteristics of the turbulence intensity were analyzed, and the main results obtained can confirm that in the artificial reef area, there was an extremely clear turbulent boundary. Furthermore, the area of influence of the longitudinal turbulence was identified to be larger than that of the vertical turbulence, and the position where the maximum turbulence intensity appeared was close to where the maximum velocity was measured. Finally, results demonstrate that low turbulence conditions are typically located in front of the unit reef, the general turbulence area is located within the upwelling zone, and the more intense turbulence area is located between the two M-shaped monocases. These results are extremely important, because they provide the local authorities with specific knowledge about what could be the effect of these M-shaped reefs within the area where they will be implemented, and therefore, specific actions can be taken in consideration with the geometrical setup suggested as an optimal solution within this study.

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Marine Ranching Construction and Management in East China Sea: Programs for Sustainable Fishery and Aquaculture

Cited by 64 publications

References 101 publications

Coastal Water Quality in an Atlantic Sea Bass Farm Site (Sines, Portugal): A First Assessment

Coastal Water Quality in an Atlantic Sea Bass Farm Site (Sines, Portugal): A First Assessment

Ecological Security Evaluation of Marine Ranching Based on DEMATEL-Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation

An Experimental Investigation of Turbulence Features Induced by Typical Artificial M-Shaped Unit Reefs

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