I am looking to improve global maps of mariculture/aquaculture production, mostly maps that show locations (with approximate production levels) at national or regional levels. According to my enquiries with FAO such maps are not widely available for many countries but readers may know of sources in the grey literature or government publications. Ultimately these maps will be combined into a global database and made available along with maps of marine capture fisheries (already released). Information must be free to be publicly released but sources will be fully acknowledged.
Norway has easily accessible digital maps of aquaculture activities, but as far as I know only available in Norwegian. Statistics on aquaculture production and structure is also easily and openly available.
Maps: https://kart.fiskeridir.no/akva
Statistics: https://fiskeridir.no/English/Aquaculture/Statistics
More statistics is available in Norwegian.
Contact me if you want any help with this.
Peru has accessible maps for aquaculture activities available in spanish. Feel free to take a look at:
http://catastroacuicola.produce.gob.pe/web/
Contact me if you need further information.
I have a colleague - a world expert on toxic algae and their blooms. He is also trying to get aquaculture maps. He mentioned a special desire to know more about Chilean aquaculture. Is there anyone there who knows where he could find this information?
Hi Reg,
For BC I'd recommend starting here: http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/aquaculture/bc-cb/maps-cartes-eng.html
NG
This is a really interesting question - I would love to see such data from across the world pulled together. A challenge! Will you keep this broad to include all types of aquaculture (fish, shellfish, seaweed)?
Yes, I think that is logical. I was told that the group from St Barbara (Univ California) also had the goal of mapping global aquaculture (and freshwater fisheries) and had some resources to bring some major players to meet with them. I will be interested to see how their initiatives proceed. Perhaps others know more about this.
I am looking forward to see the global map.
You can find maps of Chilean Aquaculture farms at http://mapas.subpesca.cl/ideviewer/
For Greece, the spatial distribution of the farms (mostly sea bass and sea bream and in certain areas shellfish farms) is not available on line, but only in grey literature. Statistics on aquaculture production is reported in the Hellenic Statistical Authority and are openly available. There is not any official data of each farm production separately. You can contact me as regards data from Greece.
Data for Greece have been compiled in the framework of the project MARISCA (http://www.marisca.eu/index.php/en/maps/maps-of-human-activities-in-the-aegean-sea/aquaculture). You may contact me if you would like to have the GIS layer.
We (Scottish Wildlife Trust Living Seas Team) built an interactive map earlier this year that includes all the salmon farms, shellfish farms and other fish farms in Scotland. Pop-up info boxes provide links to Scottish Aquaculture website that has further details on the specific site. http://swt.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=399071a02fa8436bb0b350bfea4c2e08
You can find maps of aquaculture locations on the Baltic coasts of Finland, Sweden, and Denmark on http://maps.helcom.fi/website/mapservice/. To get the locations, click on "Pressures and Human Activities", then "Baltic Sea Pressure and Impact Index", then "Human Activities", then "Finfish mariculture" or "Shellfish mariculture". You can then click on each farm for additional info including the owner. In some cases production is also indicated.
Dear Reg,
Very interesting topic. Here you can find an official website with locations and data from the spanish coasts, both Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts.
https://servicio.pesca.mapama.es/acuivisor/
Regards!
Dear Reg,
Have you made any progress with this?
I can provide information about Cyprus aquaculture (even if is a small industry).
Best wishes,
Periklis
very interested in this, has there been any progress? We were not able to find any global gis dataset on aquaculture, a part from NASO maps from FAO (and the website is broken)
Preprint Tracking changes in aquaculture ponds on the China coast usi...
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Dear Reg,
We have recently compiled data for aquaculture sites of several EU countries:
Article Current Status of Forecasting Toxic Harmful Algae for the No...
And we have a similar issue, we need to get data for all the Atlantic Ocean for another work. Maybe we can collaborate here.
Best
Those interested in this topic should correspond with
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gage-clawson-4a9763145
As this is an active research area at NCEAS
https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/
I will be forwarding all material submitted to them.
Thank you for your interest and support!
Reimagining aquaculture in the Global South
- April 2021
- Science 372(6539):247-248
- DOI:10.1126/science.abi5015
Data should be available up to 2016 for Pacific coast, Canada in Ohara et al 2020
ocean health index article
Article Mapping the spatial distribution of global mariculture production
Happy to report the work at NCEAS by Gage Clawson was just published compiling >16,000 known mariculture locations, and using a simple spatial model to map an additional ~80,000 farm locations.
Article Mapping the spatial distribution of global mariculture production
Tons of space to expand on this work and use it to answer questions on the sustainability of aquaculture production now and in the future.
I was a co-author on this work and happy to answer any questions or pass them on to Gage.
Does anyone have the doi of the database of Clawson et al. (2022). Is the whole dataset supposed to be on knb.ecoinformatics.org?
I was pretty bad at searching. the studies' first author pointed me to the doi of the database. In case anyone else finds this useful, posting the link here: https://doi.org/10.5063/F1ZK5F42
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