Category: Environmentally Friendly Aquaculture
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How Mangrove Forest Play a Vital Role in Cambodia’s Aquaculture
Mangroves are indispensable for Cambodian aquaculture, delivering ecological, protective, and economic benefits that underpin sustainability. Their decline due to destructive practices imperils food security and livelihoods, but mangrove-friendly innovations and policies offer a path forward.
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Live Fish House: Integrating Local Knowledge and Nature-Based Solutions
The “Live Fish House” model demonstrates that integrating local knowledge with Nature-based Solutions can generate synergistic outcomes for aquatic ecosystem restoration, livelihood enhancement, and sustainable fish production. By functioning as a habitat-based, culture-based fishery system, the model enhances natural recruitment, increases carrying capacity, and supports fish stock recovery without reliance on intensive aquaculture inputs.
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Local Knowledge and Nature-based Solutions in Thailand’s Inland Aquaculture
Local knowledge and Nature-based Solutions constitute mutually reinforcing pillars for sustainable inland aquaculture in Thailand. Traditional, place-based practices enhance ecosystem services and livelihoods, while NbS provide conceptual and technical frameworks to address contemporary challenges such as climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss.
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Adapting Aquaculture to an Aging Workforce: Labor-Reducing Nature-based Solutions
NbS can play a crucial role in promoting elderly inclusion in aquaculture by reducing labor intensity and aligning production systems. Rather than viewing population aging as a barrier to sustainability, labor-reducing NbS offer a pathway to enable older farmers to remain productively engaged in aquaculture with dignity, autonomy, and reduced physical strain.
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ShrimpGuard: Combining Phage and Immune Enhancers for Sustainable Shrimp Farming
Vibriosis is a major threat to shrimp farming. Implementing various preventive measures and integrating new antibiotic alternatives like ShrimpGuard will minimize the dependence on antibiotics as well as mitigate the risk posed by antimicrobial resistant bacteria.
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