The effects of shellfish aquaculture on chlorophyll-a in the north east Pacific Ocean

• Main Author: Ford, Helen
• Other Authors: Volpe, John
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Aquaculture; Fluorescence; Chlorophyll-a; Pacific oyster; British Columbia; Canada; Pacific; Crassostrea gigas
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3274

Food production systems need to keep pace with the rising global population. Food from aquatic environments comes from both capture fisheries and aquaculture. Industrial fishing pressure has caused a global loss of more than 90% of large predatory fishes and 80% of the world’s fish stocks are report...