Aquaculture vital for plugging the gap in the EU’s seafood needs

Posted on June 8, 2013 by argylesock

argylesock says… I’m watching the story of European aquaculture, posting blog updates when I see news. You might follow my ‘aquaculture’ tag for more about this.

The Coastal House

Aquaculture has a vital role to play in helping the EU to meet its demand for seafood, but expansion of the industry in Europe is hampered by bureaucratic inefficiency.

For example, it can take seven years to get a licence for a new aquaculture farm in an EU country, compared with just six months in Norway, says Viktoria Varga Lences, DG Maritime Affairs and Fisheries of the European Commission.

Meanwhile, she added, obtaining a licence for a new agriculture farm in the EU takes 4-6 months and even for an offshore wind farm it only takes 18 months. The waiting time to obtain a licence for a new fish or shellfish farm should be no more than one month, she argued.

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About argylesock

I wrote a PhD about veterinary parasitology so that's the starting point for this blog. But I'm now branching out into other areas of biology and into popular science writing. I'll write here about science that happens in landscapes, particularly farmland, and about science involving interspecific interactions. Datasets and statistics get my attention. Exactly where this blog will lead? That's a journey that I'm on and I hope you'll come with me.
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