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Aquaculture and Coastal Economic and Social Sustainability
www.abdn.ac.uk/aqcess/
Funder identifier: QLRT - 2000 - 31151 (Other contract id)
Acronym: AQCESS
Period: 2000 till 2003
Status: Completed

Thesaurus terms: Aquatic habitat; Coastal management; Fisheries
  • University of the Aegean; Laboratory of Fisheries Management and Marine Biological Resources, more, partner
  • Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute (FGFRI), more, partner
  • Institute of Marine Biology Crete (IMBC), more, partner
  • University of Thessaly (TUC), more, partner
  • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Department of Biology, more, partner
  • University College Cork; Coastal and Marine Research Centre (CMRC), more, partner
  • University of Algarve; Department of Sciences and Technology of Aquatic Resources, more, partner
  • University of Aberdeen; School of Biological Sciences; Zoology Department, more, partner
  • Marine Laboratory Aberdeen; Fisheries Research Services, more, partner
Project Aims:

  • To determine how employment in rural communities changes with the arrival of aquaculture
  • To determine what predictions exist for socio-economic, environmental and biological sustainability resulting from the interactions between aquaculture and fisheries
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  • o determine what recommendations can be made for coastal resource management in areas where aquaculture and fisheries coexist