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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sánchez-Jerez, Pablo
• Babarro, Jose M.F.
• Padin, X.A.
• Longa Portabales, Angeles
• Martinez-Llorens, Silvia
• Ballester-Berman, J. David
• Sara, Gianluca
• Mangano, Maria Cristina

Titel

Cumulative climatic stressors strangles marine aquaculture: Ancillary effects of COVID 19 on Spanish mariculture

Ist Teil von

• Aquaculture, 2022-02, Vol.549, p.737749, Article 737749

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Marine aquaculture takes advantage of marine ecosystem services to produce goods that can be relevant from a food security point of view. However, this activity is subject to multiple stressors as the ones exerted by global climate change. Local stressed conditions due to environmental drivers may be exacerbated by the COVID19 pandemic crisis. In this paper we analyze the pre-COVID-19 situation in two Spanish regions with the highest aquaculture production, Galicia and the Valencian Community. The incidence of storms, heat waves and mussel farming closure were analyzed, and surveys were used to define the perception of producers in terms of economic problems derived from COVID-19 and synergistic environmental concerns. Also the temporal trend of mussel production was analyzed. Spanish marine aquaculture has been intensively subjected to climatic stressors that made it more vulnerable to COVID-19, showing some weakness in terms of production as can be seen in mussel production and fresh consumption. Anyway, extensive aquaculture and aquaculture developed by Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) was reported as somewhat more resilient to the impact of COVID-19. In order to ensure the environmental and economic sustainability of marine aquaculture - under a future uncertain pandemic scenario – our outcomes underline the need for more resilient adaptation programs and recovery plans taking into account the climate change effects. •Climate change is threatening the sustainability of marine aquaculture.•COVID-19 crisis was an added source of disturbance to an already weakened sector.•The sector must increase its resilience against both acting and unexpected stressors.•Multiple-stressors strategies and plan should drive the national recovery plans COVID-19.