Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article examines the challenges and consequences of climate change on the planet, provoked by active human activity over the past 200 years, which led to the rapid accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.An increase in the average annual temperature on Earth, melting glaciers and rising sea levels, extreme natural phenomena (floods, catastrophic storms, intense droughts and severe fires), a decrease in biodiversity and the disappearance of some species.The world's oceans are becoming increasingly salty and acidic due to warming of the atmosphere and oceans, changes in the nature of precipitation and an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events.This creates serious dangers for fisheries and aquaculture, affects the physiology and behaviour of many species of aquatic organisms, changes their productivity, migration processes and habitat parameters.Since the main pollutant of the atmosphere is carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gas components, the concentrations of which are steadily increasing, this directly depends on the high rates of fossil fuel consumption.Therefore, the main task of combating the climate crisis is to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and adapt to climate change.Aquaculture plays an important role in ensuring food security, economic development of territories and preserving biodiversity.This is of particular importance in the context of global challenges such as climate change and the reduction of natural fish stocks.Aquaculture allows reducing pressure on natural ecosystems, since the production of fish and seafood in specially created conditions is more sustainable and efficient compared to traditional fishing.Most decisions made for the further development of the industry should be related to the transition to sustainable development of aquaculture.The article reviews solutions that have already been proposed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).The Blue Transformation concept, developed in line with the FAO Strategic Programme 2022-2031 and the FAO Committee on Fisheries Declaration on the Sustainable Development of Fisheries and Aquaculture, a Blue Transformation Roadmap, Guidelines for Sustainable Aquaculture (GSA), prepared by the Subcommittee on Aquaculture of the FAO Committee on Fisheries, demonstrate the importance of an integrated approach to the management and sustainable development of global aquaculture.Indeed, the development of sustainable aquaculture has great potential to address the environmental crisis and deepen food security, provide populations with sufficient quantities of healthy, nutrient-rich foods, and adapt to climate change.
Author: O. A. Dyudyayeva
Language: English
Subfield: Ecology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDGs: Climate action, Zero hunger
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411510018