Co-Convenors: Ingrid
Burgetz (Canada), Dohoon Kim (Korea), Minling Pan (U.S.A.) and Qingyin
Wang (China)
Past activities of PICES have mainly focused on
physical and biological sciences, such as ecology, ecosystems, fisheries,
oceanography, and biogeochemistry, etc. While humans are essential parts
of marine ecosystems, it is important to consider impacts from human
activities/uses upon marine living resources and economic and social
science research within the PICES region. Indeed, the new FUTURE science
program endeavors to provide a greater role for social and economic
scientists in PICES. This session is convened in direct response to
this objective and is intended to be a step toward enhancing research
and management of marine living resources from a socio-economic perspective.
Considering the growing role of marine aquaculture in both seafood
production and consumption as well as the close relationship between
marine aquaculture and wild ocean capture fisheries, this session will
focus on the relationships of marine aquaculture to capture fisheries
with respect to economics, such as (1) marine aquaculture products as
a substitute and/or complement for wild caught products owing to consumer
preference, price, and availability; (2) the synergies between aquaculture
and fishing (use of fish processing trimmings, resilient coastal communities
and maintaining working waterfronts), and (3) economic considerations
regarding potential environmental effects (positive and negative) interactions
between captured fisheries and marine aquaculture (e.g., feed inputs
in marine aquaculture derived from captured fisheries, aquaculture stock
enhancement, aquaculture structures as fish aggregating devices, etc.).
Selected oral and poster presentations will be considered for publication
in a specials issue of a peer-reviewed journal such as Aquaculture
Economics and Management, Aquaculture, Reviews in Aquaculture, or Fishery
Research.