Aquaculture will continue to depend more on land than sea

Wenbo Zhang¹, Ben Belton^{2

3}, Peter Edwards⁴, Patrik J G Henriksson^{3

5

6}, David C Little⁷, Richard Newton⁷, Max Troell^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ National Demonstration Center for Experimental Fisheries Science Education, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Aquaculture, Centre for Research on Environmental Ecology and Fish Nutrition of the Ministry of Agriculture, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China. wb-zhang@shou.edu.cn.
² Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
³ WorldFish, Jalan Batu Maung, Penang, Malaysia.
⁴ School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, Thailand.
⁵ Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁶ Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁷ Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.

Comment

Wenbo Zhang et al. Nature. 2022 Mar.

. 2022 Mar;603(7900):E2-E4.

doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04331-3. Epub 2022 Mar 9.

Wenbo Zhang¹, Ben Belton^{2

3}, Peter Edwards⁴, Patrik J G Henriksson^{3

5

6}, David C Little⁷, Richard Newton⁷, Max Troell^{5

6}

¹ National Demonstration Center for Experimental Fisheries Science Education, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Aquaculture, Centre for Research on Environmental Ecology and Fish Nutrition of the Ministry of Agriculture, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China. wb-zhang@shou.edu.cn.
² Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
³ WorldFish, Jalan Batu Maung, Penang, Malaysia.
⁴ School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, Thailand.
⁵ Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁶ Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁷ Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.

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