Best Practice

Marine Farm (Credit: Aquaculture New Zealand)

Some of the risks from aquaculture activities discussed in the previous sections can be minimised through good siting of farms and design, such as marine mammal interactions, adverse impacts on landscape and natural character and alterations of water flows. Other risks, such as those associated with marine biosecurity, can be managed through good on-farm practices. Water quality impacts and cumulative risks are harder to predict and are therefore best managed adaptively, by phasing development within initially precautionary principles. The table below provides guidance on the ways different impacts can be managed for impact mitigation.

General Aquaculture Activities

Shellfish

King Salmon and Indigenous Fish

 

  1. Kemper C et al., 2003

  2. http://aquaculture.org.nz/environment/sustainability/

Last updated at 1:31PM on February 25, 2015