Hannah Harrison

Abstract Efforts to scale up aquaculture are increasingly framed as essential to global food security and ocean sustainability, yet such narratives often obscure the complex and interdependent relationships between aquaculture and wild-capture fisheries. This paper critically interrogates the dominant “feed the world” framing of aquaculture expansion, arguing that treating aquaculture and fisheries as isolated systems undermines social equity, ecological sustainability, and effective food policy.

Science & Society | Series: Local and Indigenous ecological knowledgeOnline now 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 3B2 2Department of Biology, University of Victoria, 3800 Finnerty Rd., Victoria, BC, Canada, V8P 5C2 3Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA, 95616 4Marine Affairs Program, Dalhousie University, Life Sciences Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada, B3H 3Z1 5School of...

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