FishBase 2015: Anders Kiessling
Channel: Fishbase Sweden
Date: 2015-11-04

Anders Kiessling, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, gave a lecture on "Aquaculture the missing link in circular production systems".

Abstract: A growing population, urbanization and rapid globalization of economy pose growing challenges to our food supply. This has up to now been met by intensified agriculture and aquaculture, e.g. involving increased land and water use, crop and species development, mechanization, fertilization and high energy use. This development will have to be at least partially reoriented to less land-intense, less energy-intense and more eco-cycle oriented methods. Other important demands are safety of food supply, high food quality and an ethical handling of animals. This presentation focuses the role of aquaculture in this development. By combining terrestrial and aquatic closed and semi closed systems into integrated and multi trophic farming systems utilizing no arable land, low freshwater resources and waste streams of energy and nutrients it is possible to formulate sustainable and circular systems possible to locate in both urbane and more rural settings.

FishBase is the world's largest encyclopedia of fish, freely available on the net. The Swedish office every year holds an annual public symposium on a current theme related to fish biology, fish systematics and fish ecology. FishBase Symposium 2015 was held in Stockholm, Monday 19th October, in the Main Auditorium of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and the theme was CAPTIVATING FISHES (fängslande fiskar), a pun referencing both keeping fishes in captivity, and the captivating, fascinating, nature of fishes. Today science and technology have advanced to the point that it is now possible to keep almost any aquatic organism in recirculating systems. FishBase Sweden invited seven experts to give talks on different aspects of what captive maintenance and breeding has meant for conservation, for food production, and for the aquarium hobby.

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