In this special publication (no. 16) of the Aquaculture Association of Canada a review on the project (over 220) descriptions detailing an impressive range of topics, disciplines, and species from across the vast geography of Canada was presented. Projects include marine and freshwater species,...

This article presents an overview of the marine aquaculture industry in Canada based on statistics covering the years 2012 and 2013, the most recent years for which complete statistics are available. Highlights of the overview focused on the environmental sustainability, economic impact/status,...

California sea cucumbers (Apostichopus californicus) are often abundant at oyster farms in British Columbia, Canada both on the suspended gear as juveniles and on the seafloor beneath them as a mixture of juveniles and adults. Their natural abundance, high value, and potential to mitigate benthic...

Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) combines fed aquaculture (e.g. finfish) with extractive aquaculture (e.g. shellfish and seaweeds) at one site to recycle nutrient waste while producing marketable seafood products. If existing finfish monoculture operations adopt IMTA, there could be an...

In recent years, mortality of cultured Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) during July and August has regularly exceeded 50% in many oyster farms in Baynes Sound, British Columbia (BC), Canada. However, little is known about the bacterial diversity and environmental/biological conditions that may...

Shellfish farming is an expanding segment of marine aquaculture, but environmental effects of this industry are only beginning to be considered. The interaction between off-bottom, suspended oyster farming and wintering sea ducks in coastal British Columbia was studied. Specifically, the habitat...

Integrated culture of bivalves at marine finfish farms may help lessen nutrient loading while producing a commercially-valuable crop and increasing the farms' social license to operate. Integrated culture of filter-feeding bivalves at salmon farms may also provide natural mitigation of the...

This 20th ACC Special publication, Aquaculture Canada 2011 presents papers from the proceedings of the 28th Annual General Meeting of the Aquaculture Association of Canada, held in Ville de Quebec, Quebec, Canada, last 8-11 May, 2011. Focused of papers submitted are on the sustainability, culture...

Bivalve aquaculture introduces high densities of farmed organisms to the natural environment with potential consequences on a number of ecosystem processes, including modification of nutrient fluxes (e.g. NH₄, NO_X, PO₄, and Si(OH)₄) and benthic respiration, and may impact benthic communities....

Maintaining food production while sustaining productive ecosystems is among the central challenges of our time, yet, it has been for millennia. Ancient clam gardens, intertidal rock-walled terraces constructed by humans during the late Holocene, are thought to have improved the growing conditions...