Abstract:Summary
The crisis in capture fisheries has placed an increased onus on aquaculture to supply the world fish demand. The advancing role of culture relative to capture fisheries has precipitated environmental and socio‐economic transformations. Geographers have paid scant attention to these developments. This paper provides a literature review and proffers a research agenda for aquacultural geography.
“…While descriptive economic analysis is increasingly being carried out on freshwater aquaculture systems Pimsombun et al, 2005), few links have been made with the space and geography of either the social or ecological systems in which they are embedded. In order to integrate these perspectives, this article uses the concept of an ''aquacultural geography'' (Barton & Staniford, 1998) to provide a more spatially sensitive understanding of the decisions farmers make over small-scale rural aquaculture production relative to their immediate environment and their wider social, cultural and economic contexts.…”
& This article provides a detailed empirical study of investment patterns in small-scale rural aquaculture and its relation to pond location based on a systematic fish pond survey in Lao PDR. Nominal investment categories of fish ponds were created based on stocking rate, feed and water and then spatially cross-referenced with a range of environmental factors, including distance to roads, land use, and distance to water resources. Contrary to current aquaculture development policies, the results show the dynamic nature of fish ponds as a source of water, native fish and exotic fish. It is concluded that policy makers and extension officers can make use of simple diagnostic models of fish pond use and investment to develop more contingent support to farmers that takes into consideration a wider portfolio of living aquatic resources in rural communities.
“…While descriptive economic analysis is increasingly being carried out on freshwater aquaculture systems Pimsombun et al, 2005), few links have been made with the space and geography of either the social or ecological systems in which they are embedded. In order to integrate these perspectives, this article uses the concept of an ''aquacultural geography'' (Barton & Staniford, 1998) to provide a more spatially sensitive understanding of the decisions farmers make over small-scale rural aquaculture production relative to their immediate environment and their wider social, cultural and economic contexts.…”
& This article provides a detailed empirical study of investment patterns in small-scale rural aquaculture and its relation to pond location based on a systematic fish pond survey in Lao PDR. Nominal investment categories of fish ponds were created based on stocking rate, feed and water and then spatially cross-referenced with a range of environmental factors, including distance to roads, land use, and distance to water resources. Contrary to current aquaculture development policies, the results show the dynamic nature of fish ponds as a source of water, native fish and exotic fish. It is concluded that policy makers and extension officers can make use of simple diagnostic models of fish pond use and investment to develop more contingent support to farmers that takes into consideration a wider portfolio of living aquatic resources in rural communities.
“…The crisis in capture fisheries, that deepened during the last quarter of the twentieth century (FAO, 2004), has given rise to a significant increase in fish farming and the aquaculture of diverse molluscs, fishes and algae for human consumption (Doumenge, 1986;Barton and Staniford, 1998). As a productive sector, aquaculture has now claimed a significant role in many developing countries, such as Chile, Ecuador, the Philippines and Thailand.…”
Section: Political Ecology and The Centrality Of Governancementioning
“… Research agenda for a geography of living aquatic resources Source : Barton and Staniford (, 151, Figure )…”
Section: Critical Beginningsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The spectacular global expansion of aquaculture over the last four decades has been addressed by social scientists in a relatively small number of academic publications. Barton and Staniford's () paper ‘Net deficits and the case for an aquacultural geography’ was one of the most significant of these to date; making the case for aquaculture as fruitful ground for exploration by geographers, and outlining a ‘research agenda for aquacultural geography’ (p. 150) with which to address the so‐called, and then yet to be realised, ‘blue revolution’.…”
Geographers first identified aquaculture as an important field of study during the 1990s, pointing to a ‘net deficit’ in geographical knowledge about the activity. This paper examines how far geographers have come in bridging this knowledge deficit in the last 20 years. While increasing attention has focused on the political economy of export products consumed in the global North, ‘everyday’ geographies of aquaculture production and consumption in the global South have been neglected. We argue that paying greater attention to everyday aquaculture in the global South provides opportunities for geographers to engage with wider questions around development and change that extend far beyond aquaculture. By focusing on changing patterns of aquaculture production for Southern domestic markets, geographers can provide a counterpoint to Northern dominated agro‐food studies by re‐emphasising the importance of consumption, urbanisation and agrarian transitions from a more place‐based perspective and, in doing so, support the development of theory that reflects Southern realties.
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