1 THE AQUACULTURE-FISHERIES OVERLAP: CAPTURE-BASED AQUACULTURE

Introduction

Fishing and aquaculture are often viewed as separate activities but we now need to ask the question “where does fishing end, and aquaculture start?” The release of hatchery-reared animals into the wild for capture fisheries enhancement is aquaculture-driven and is therefore referred to as “culture-based fisheries” (FAO 1997b).

Another type of activity entails the capture of animals from the wild for farming purposes. We have coined the term “capture-based aquaculture” to cover this form of overlap between fisheries and aquaculture, namely when fishing is put at the service of aquaculture. This report is concerned with capture-based aquaculture.