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Aquaculture dossier - reference and further readings
Reference and further readings to Organic Aquaculture. EU Regulations (EC) 834/2007, (EC) 889/2008, (EC) 710/2009. BACKGROUND, ASSESSMENT, INTERPRETATION.

Selected readings to the article History of organic aquaculture by Stefan Bergleiter (Naturland - Association for Organic Farming e.V.) and Udo Censkowsky (Organic Services)

BERGLEITER, S. (2003). Organic Aquaculture – Completing the first decade. In: The Organic Standard. Dossier Special.

CENSKOWSKY, U. (2005). A starting point: The EU Commission takes up the topic of Organic Aquaculture. Globefish: http://www.globefish.org/files/Organic-aquaculture-Brussels-conference_296.pdf

SUBASINGHE, S., LEM, A., SINGH, T. (2005). The production and marketing of organic aquaculture products. Proceeding of the global technical and trade conference. FAO June 2004, Vietnam.

Reference to the article Fish welfare – a key issue for organic system standards by Pino Lembo (COISPA Tecnologia & Ricerca, ICEA - Institute for Ethics and Environmental Certification) and Walter Zupa (COISPA Tecnologia & Ricerca)


Ashley P. J. (2007). Fish welfare: Current issues in aquaculture. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2006.09.001.

Barber I. (2007). Parasites, behaviour and welfare in fish. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 104: 251-264.

Barton B. A. (2002). Stress in fishes: A diversity of responses with particular reference to changes in circulating corticosteroids. Integrated and Comparative Biology, 42: 517-525.

CARBONARA P.L., SCOLAMACCHIA M., SPEDICATO M.T., MCKINLEY R.S. & LEMBO G. (2008). Muscle activity as a potential indicator of welfare in farmed european sea bass: results from an electromyographic (emg) telemetry study. IFOAM conference on organic aquaculture. Cattolica – Italy. Edited by ICEA.

Chandroo K. P., Duncan I. J. H., Moccia R. D. (2004). Can fish suffer?: perspectives on sentience, pain, fear and stress . Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 86: 225-250.

Conte F. S. (2004). Stress and the welfare of cultured fish. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 86: 205-223.

Duncan I. J. H. (1996). Animal welfare defined in terms of feelings. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica. Section A. Animal Science, 27: 29-35.

EFSA (2009). Food Safety considerations concerning the species-specific welfare aspects of the main systems of stunning and killing of farmed fish. The EFSA Journal, 1190: 1-16.

Ellis T., North B., Scott A. P., Bromage N. R., Porter M., Gadd D. (2002). The relationships between stocking density and welfare in farmed rainbow trout. Journal of Fish Biology, 61: 493–531.

Ellis T., Scott A. P., Bromage N., North B., Porter M. (2001). What is stocking density?. Trout News, 32: 35-37.

Ersdal C., Midtlyng P. J., Jarp J. (2001). An epidemiological study of cataracts in seawater farmed Atlantic salmon Salmo salar. Diseases Of Aquatic Organisms, 45: 229-236.

FSBI (2002). Fish welfare. Briefing paper 2. (www.fsbi.org.uk/docs/brief-welfare-refs.pdf)

Greaves K., Tuene S. (2001). The form and context of aggressive behaviour in farmed Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus). Aquaculture, 193: 139-147.

Huntingford F., Adams C., Braithwait V. A., Kadri S., Pottinger T. G., Sandøe P., Turnbull J. F. (2006). Current issues in fish welfare. Journal of Fish Biology, 68: 332-372.

LEMBO G., CARBONARA P., SCOLAMACCHIA M., SPEDICATO M.T., MCKINLEY R.S. (2007). Use of muscle activity indices as a relative measureof well-being in cultured sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax(Linnaeus, 1758). Hydrobiologia, 582: 271–280.

Lowe T. E., Ryder J. M., Carragher J. F., Wells R. M. G. (1993). Flesh Quality in Snapper, Pagrus auratus, Affected by Capture Stress. Journal of Food Science, 58: 770-773.

Lymbery P. (2002). In too deep: the welfare of intensively farmed fish. CIWS, WSPA.

Poli B. M. (2009). Farmed fish welfare-suffering assessment and impact on product quality. Italian Journal of Animal Sciences, 8: 139-160.

Poli B. M., Parisi G., Scappini F., Zampacavallo G. (2005). Fish welfare and quality as affected by pre-slaughter and slaughter management. Aquaculture International, 13: 29-49.

Poppe T. T., Barnes A. C., Midtlyng P. J. (2002). Welfare and ethics in fish farming. Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists, 22: 148-151.

Stevenson P. (2007). Closed waters: the welfare of farmed Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout, Atlantic cod & Atlantic halibut. CIWS, WSPA.

van de Vis H., Kestin S., Robb D., Oehlenschlager J., Lambooij B., Munkner W., Kuhlmann H., Kloosterboer K., Tejada M., Huidobro A.et al.(2003). Is humane slaughter of fish possible for industry?. Aquaculture Research, 34: 211-220.

Wendelaar Bonga S. E. (1997). The stress response in fish. PhysiologicalReviews, 77: 591-625.




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