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A review of marine aquaculture in Spain: production, regulations and environmental monitoring
Author(s) -
SánchezMata A.,
Mora J.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of applied ichthyology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.392
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1439-0426
pISSN - 0175-8659
DOI - 10.1046/j.1439-0426.2000.00261.x
Subject(s) - aquaculture , fishery , agriculture , biology , mariculture , turbot , shellfish , fish farming , aquatic animal , fish <actinopterygii> , ecology
Summary In this review the main aspects concerning Spanish marine aquaculture production, and its control, are summarized. Aquaculture in Spain has been dominated by extensive shellfish farming, mainly mussels (3242 rafts; 260 000 t year ‐1 in 1998), since the beginning of the 1950s. This type of farming was the most lucrative marine aquaculture activity in the Galician Rías (NW of the Iberian Peninsula) in terms of production. In recent years, finfish farming has developed in a number of Mediterranean locations, with turbot, sea bream and sea bass as the most important species produced (18 300 t year ‐1 in 1998). Environmental, food‐quality and medicine standards are also reviewed in this paper including the regulations, rules, farm licensing, permits and monitoring programmes involved.