Abstract
The seafood market is highly globalised with a growing demand for seafood and fish products worldwide. The capacity of wild fisheries is limited and therefore aquaculture is fast becoming the most stable source of seafood to meet increasing demand. Subsequently, the perceived environmental risk of fin-fish aquaculture has been the focus of substantial environmental campaigning, media and public scrutiny around the world. This paper places localised tensions regarding the environmental impacts of salmon aquaculture within transnational environmental sustainability debates concerning seafood production and vice-versa, with a focus on the Australia-Asia region. The results contribute to understanding the interpretation and communication of environmental sustainability of seafood through international supply chains and to audiences at different spatial scales. The paper draws particularly on the case of salmon aquaculture in Tasmania, Australia’s southern island state. It highlights mechanisms, such as certification, for which information flows transnationally regarding the environmental sustainability of seafood production, the resultant transnational and local public sphere and the implications for local discourse, market access, governance and certification of seafood production.
Highlights
Seafood products are some of the most highly traded food commodities globally (FAO, 2016)
This paper has explored the transnational flow of information, resources, perceptions and governance of environmentally sustainable seafood
Tasmanian salmon aquaculture provided a local context from which the research could expand
Summary
Seafood products are some of the most highly traded food commodities globally (FAO, 2016). Demand for seafood, driven by a growing population, the Asian middle class, requires the increased use of natural resources globally (Cao et al, 2017). Accompanying this increased pressure on natural resources to sustain the human population is the rise in awareness of sustainable development. The environmental sustainability construct is both widely used and widely disputed (Seghezzo, 2009). Environmental sustainability can be approached from either the perspective of how best to protect environmental attributes or how to most optimally use an environmental resource. Variously interpreted is how these perspectives fit in with the construct of sustainable development
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