Increase in aquaculture toward realizing the potential of the ocean as a key food provider requires comprehensive and proactive management approaches to mitigate impacts on coastal areas and to secure space for sustainable aquaculture development in both inshore and offshore areas. Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) and Marine Functional Zoning (MFZ) are policy instruments employed in the management and regulation of multiple hum...

The ecosystem approach to aquaculture (EAA) is a strategy for the sustainable development of the aquaculture sector, but the question of how it can be practically implemented remains unclear. Indicators that can be applied at relevant scales of impact and that reflect the environmental status and change offer a means of operationalizing EAA. Therefore, a systematic literature review was carried out to identify environmental in...

Carrying capacity has become a fundamental concept within the context of environmental management. Carrying capacity for aquaculture has been studied since the 1960s and has attracted a dedicated literature focused on measuring the environmental and production limits of aquaculture developments. Nevertheless, management and policy face emerging challenges across environmental and social aspects and the growing need to manage m...