Chapter 2
Offshore and Multi-Use Aquaculture
with Extractive Species: Seaweeds
and Bivalves
Bela H. Buck, Nancy Nevejan, Mathieu Wille, Michael D. Chambers
and Thierry Chopin
Abstract Aquaculture of extractive species, such as bivalves and macroalgae,
already supplies a large amount of the production consumed worldwide, and further
production is steadily increasing. Moving aquaculture operations off the coast as
well as combining various uses at one site, commonly called multi-use aquaculture,
is still in its infancy. Various projects worldwide, pioneered in Germany and later
accompanied by other European projects, such as in Belgium, The Netherlands,
Norway, as well as other international projects in the Republic of Korea and the
USA, to name a few, started to invest in robust technologies and to investigate in
system design needed that species can be farmed to market size in high energy
environments. There are a few running enterprises with extractive species offshore,
however, multi-use scenarios as well as offshore IMTA concepts are still on project
scale. This will change soon as the demand is dramatically increasing and space is
limited.
B.H. Buck (&)
Marine Aquaculture, Maritime Technologies and ICZM, Alfred Wegener Institute
Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI),
Bussestrasse 27, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
e-mail: Bela.H.Buck@awi.de
B.H. Buck
Applied Marine Biology, University of Applied Sciences Bremerhaven,
An der Karlstadt 8, 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany
N. Nevejan Á M. Wille
Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center,
Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering,
Ghent University, Campus Coupure F, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
M.D. Chambers
School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering, University of New Hampshire,
Morse Hall, Room 164, Durham, NH, USA
T. Chopin
Canadian Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture Network, University of New Brunswick,
100 Tucker Park Road, Saint John, NB E2L 4L5, Canada
© The Author(s) 2017
B.H. Buck and R. Langan (eds.), Aquaculture Perspective of Multi-Use Sites
in the Open Ocean, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-51159-7_2
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Offshore and Multi-Use Aquaculture
with Extractive Species: Seaweeds
and Bivalves
Bela H. Buck, Nancy Nevejan, Mathieu Wille, Michael D. Chambers
and Thierry Chopin
Abstract Aquaculture of extractive species, such as bivalves and macroalgae,
already supplies a large amount of the production consumed worldwide, and further
production is steadily increasing. Moving aquaculture operations off the coast as
well as combining various uses at one site, commonly called multi-use aquaculture,
is still in its infancy. Various projects worldwide, pioneered in Germany and later
accompanied by other European projects, such as in Belgium, The Netherlands,
Norway, as well as other international projects in the Republic of Korea and the
USA, to name a few, started to invest in robust technologies and to investigate in
system design needed that species can be farmed to market size in high energy
environments. There are a few running enterprises with extractive species offshore,
however, multi-use scenarios as well as offshore IMTA concepts are still on project
scale. This will change soon as the demand is dramatically increasing and space is
limited.
B.H. Buck (&)
Marine Aquaculture, Maritime Technologies and ICZM, Alfred Wegener Institute
Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI),
Bussestrasse 27, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
e-mail: Bela.H.Buck@awi.de
B.H. Buck
Applied Marine Biology, University of Applied Sciences Bremerhaven,
An der Karlstadt 8, 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany
N. Nevejan Á M. Wille
Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center,
Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering,
Ghent University, Campus Coupure F, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
M.D. Chambers
School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering, University of New Hampshire,
Morse Hall, Room 164, Durham, NH, USA
T. Chopin
Canadian Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture Network, University of New Brunswick,
100 Tucker Park Road, Saint John, NB E2L 4L5, Canada
© The Author(s) 2017
B.H. Buck and R. Langan (eds.), Aquaculture Perspective of Multi-Use Sites
in the Open Ocean, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-51159-7_2
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