DRIVING FORCES OF THE REVIVAL OF FISH FARMING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AQUACULTURE IN THE UKRAINIAN BLACK SEA COAST
Authors: STEPANOV V.N. 
Published: July 2023

Topicality. Modern transformations associated with radical changes in the system of international and national security, including those caused by the growing shortage of food products and the threat of famine, determine the growing need for a new understanding of food security problems both at the international and national levels. This problem is becoming more and more relevant for Ukraine as well, which was mostly exacerbated as a result of russia's military aggression. One of the important assets of Ukraine in terms of solving food security problems is its fishing potential.

Aim and tasks. This work aims to consider some basic theoretical, methodological and applied aspects of mobilization of natural resource potential and economic assets of the fishery sector of the economic system of Ukraine. At the same time, the main task of solving the specified target problems in the work is the system generalization and program-target organization of driving forces that can really be mobilized in the direction of the revival of fisheries and the development of aquaculture in Ukraine.

Materials and methods. This study used primarily national regulatory and legal materials that determine state policy in the field of development of the agro-industrial complex, fisheries and aquaculture, in particular, the Law of Ukraine "On Aquaculture", as well as foreign materials reflecting modern food security problems. In terms of methodological support of the research, the author paid attention to the possibilities of using modern apparatus for the study of complex developing systems in conditions of crisis transformation, as well as modern ideologues of such scientific areas as conflictology, riskology, theory of nonlinear systems.

Research results. The work presents the results of theoretical and methodological discussions and applied aspects of the formation of a new fishery complex of Ukraine. The long-term prospects of its revival are associated with the mobilization model of the development of continental aquaculture and marine culture of reproduction (mariculture). Particular attention is paid to the driving forces of the revival of the national fishery and aquaculture. In the work, driving forces are defined as an integrated set of two basic components: the needs and interests of society in the production of fishery products; availability and possibilities of effective implementation of state resources and assets.

Conclusion. The theoretical and methodological approaches discussed in the work to the activation of the driving forces of aquaculture development should be considered as an important scientific and applied basis for the revival of fisheries and aquaculture in Ukraine in the context of growing socio-economic and ecological conflict, including those associated with military aggression of russia, attention is drawn to the fact that Ukraine has a very large and favorable natural resource potential both for the production of agricultural products and products of the fishery sector of the economy. As an outpost of the revival and development of the Ukrainian fishery and its promising key sector - aquaculture an mariculture − the sea coastal zone is consi ere in relation to the water management potential of the coastal regions of Ukraine.