The Role of Shellfish Farms in Provision of Ecosystem Goods and Services

Ferreira, J.G.; Hawkins, A. J. S.; Bricker, Suzanne B.

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“…These impacts on benthic communities due to increased organic matter can include changes in the size and structure of benthic community composition (Ferreira et al . ; Norkko & Shumway ). Benthic effects are normally restricted to swathes of seabed directly below growing lines and less than 30 m wide (Lloyd ).…”

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“…However, at unsuitable conditions coupling high farming density, shallow areas and low water circulation, this biodeposition can cause stress on benthic organisms through oxygen depletion, elevated levels of ammonium and in extreme cases, toxic effects from hydrogen sulphide (H 2 S) formation in the sediment (Dahlb€ ack & Gunnarsson 1981;Tenore et al 1985;Grant et al 1995). These impacts on benthic communities due to increased organic matter can include changes in the size and structure of benthic community composition (Ferreira et al 2011;Norkko & Shumway 2011). Benthic effects are normally restricted to swathes of seabed directly below growing lines and less than 30 m wide (Lloyd 2003).…”

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A review of the multiple benefits of mussel farming

Suplicy

2018

Reviews in Aquaculture

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This review analyses how mussel farming can contribute to the challenge of feeding the current and future world population in a more efficient and sustainable way. The analysis lays a foundation of the main issues with current practices of animal protein production, and compares them with the alternative of a massive expansion of mussel farming as a means to produce high‐quality protein for human and animal nutrition. The review also covers the ecological goods and services that mussels provide to the ocean and to the atmosphere, the health of mussel products, and the many potential uses of by‐products from the mussel industry in agriculture, in wastewater treatment, and in the feed industry.

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Section: Environmental Impacts Of Mussel Farmingmentioning

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Section: Environmental Impacts Of Mussel Farmingmentioning

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A review of the multiple benefits of mussel farming

Suplicy

2018

Reviews in Aquaculture

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“…The role of bivalve farms in the provision of ecosystem goods and services has been reviewed by Ferreira et al 2011, using the Farm Aquaculture Resource Management (FARM) model (Ferreira et al 2007), and stressing the importance of bivalve farms in mitigating the consequences of nutrient loading. The application of dynamic biogeochemical, bivalve ecophysiological, and physical oceanographic models to predict bivalve growth have been reviewed by Grant and Filgueira (2011).…”

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Farm-Scale Production Models

Newell

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Richardson

2018

Goods and Services of Marine Bivalves

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Farm-scale production models of bivalves have been used for site selection, optimization of culture practices, and the estimation of ecosystem goods and services. While all farm models require physical forcing through hydrodynamic models, the input of measured or modelled bivalve growth drivers, and a bioenergetic growth model which predicts individual growth and farm yield as a function of husbandry practices, some models are also embedded in a GIS system to allow for a "point and click" ability to test different locations and production strategies at various locations within the modeled domain. More generic Web-based models such as the Farm Aquaculture Resource Management are relatively simple to use, provide a link to larger ecosystem models, and provide direct estimates of ecosystem services. More detailed models, such as ShellGIS, may be more data intensive and require detailed bathymetry, spatial velocity fields, information about boundary layer and aquaculture structure hydrodynamics and particle depletion. However, these models provide the detailed spatial and temporal results that can optimize farm productivity and assess benthic impacts. New approaches using high resolution remote sensing satellites and powerful physical-biogeochemical models using unstructured grids to link farm scale models with ecosystem models in a GIS platform have potential to provide improvements in the utility of farm scale models for the estimation of bivalve aquaculture ecosystem goods and services.

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“…Recent research, however, has begun to quantify the potential of bivalve shellfish aquaculture as a nutrient management tool (Bricker, Rice & Bricker ; Rose, Bricker, Tedesco & Wikfors ; Saurel, Ferreira, Cheney, Suhrbier, Dewey, Davis & Cordell ). Suspension‐feeding bivalves such as oysters and mussels remove suspended particulates and associated nutrients from the water as they feed, and when harvested represent a direct removal of the assimilated nutrients from the ecosystem (Hammer ; Newell ; Lindahl, Hart, Hernroth, Kollberg, Loo, Olrog & Rehnstam‐Holm ; Ferreira, Hawkins & Bricker , ; Burkholder & Shumway ; Coen, Dumbauld & Judge ; Higgins, Stephenson & Brown ; Carmichael, Walton & Clark ; Pollack, Yoskowitz, Hae‐Cheol & Montagna ). Farmed (and wild) bivalves also potentially cause nutrient removal by enhancing burial in sediments, and in the case of nitrogen, increased denitrification rates (Newell, Fisher, Holyoke & Cornwell ; Pietros & Rice ; Piehler & Smyth ; Carmichael, Walton et al .…”

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Growth, morphometrics and nutrient content of farmed eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin), in New Hampshire, USA

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When harvested, oysters represent a removal from the ecosystem of nutrients such as nitrogen (N) and carbon (C). A number of factors potentially affect nutrient content, but a quantitative understanding across the geographic range of the eastern oysters is lacking. The present study was designed to quantify the relationships among various metrics of farmed eastern oysters near its northern geographic range focusing on nutrient content. Hatchery-reared oysters were deployed in polyethylene bags at six sites, and were measured on multiple occasions from 2010-2012. A quadratic polynomial fit to the combined datasets for shell height indicated that on average a 'cocktail' size oyster (63 mm shell height) would be reached after 2 yr, and 'regular' size (76 mm) would require 3 yr. There were significant differences in growth rates and oyster nutrient content among the sites; means for %N in soft tissue ranged from 6.9 to 8.6, and 0.07 to 0.18 in shell. Percent N in soft tissue and shell were highest at two sites at the mouths of rivers with elevated dissolved inorganic N concentrations in the water. Grand means (all sites, seasons and years combined) of soft tissue N and C for regular size oysters were 7.3% and 38.5%, respectively; and for shell N and C were 0.13% and 12.0%, respectively. Our study extends the range of data on nutrient content of the eastern oyster to northern New England, and indicates that oyster size, seasonality, and nutrient concentration in ambient water potentially affect %N and %C content of oysters.

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The Role of Shellfish Farms in Provision of Ecosystem Goods and Services

Cited by 16 publications

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A review of the multiple benefits of mussel farming

A review of the multiple benefits of mussel farming

Farm-Scale Production Models

Growth, morphometrics and nutrient content of farmed eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin), in New Hampshire, USA

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