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effectiveness and accountability of the sector to build trust growth and competitiveness vis-à-vis non-European Union
Special Section | Aquaculture Reviews
through transparency in decision-making and planning; producers. Ms Barazi-Geroulanou recommended better
and (iii) better engage the wider public in decisions about communicating aquaculture to the public and prioritizing:
the trade-offs between aquaculture expansion and other (i) innovative production methods, such as land-based
sectors. She called for sound data to balance environmental recirculating aquaculture systems, offshore farms and
concerns with social and economic parameters and for multi-trophic, multi-functional, multi-usage platforms;
systems thinking as well as open innovation to help create (ii) innovation in species selection and product form,
cohesive and comprehensive aquaculture planning systems. raw materials and therapeutics; and (iii) innovative data
gathering, data analysis and artificial intelligence as means
Producers’ challenges and innovations to better manage production and responsiveness to the
According to Ms Lara Barazi-Geroulanou, the European sector´s markets.
aquaculture sector is part of, and has immediate access
to, the largest markets for its products. However,
the sector suffers from limited access to space and REFERENCES
onerous bureaucracy, difficult licensing and regulatory A video recording of the webinar can be found here:
environments, which have negative effects on production www.aquaculture2020.org/reviews

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Juvenile sturgeon in an aquaculture facility.

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