GLOSSARY

Aquaculture licence
A legal document giving
officialauthorization to carry out
aquaculture. This authorization may
take different forms: an aquaculture
permit, allowing the activity itself to
take place; or an authorization
or concession, allowing occupation
and/or for aquaculture of an area in
the public domain so long as the
applicant or holder of the
authorization complies with the
environmental and aquaculture
regulations and other conditions of
the authorization (IUCN, 2009).

Aquaculture zone
An aquaculture zone is an area
dedicated to aquaculture, recognized
by physical or spatial planning
authorities, that would be considered
as a priority for local aquaculture
development (GESAMP, 2001;
Sanchez-Jerez, et al., 2016).

Area management
A plan for the management of a
defined area for aquaculture where
plan the farmers undertake aquaculture
in accordance with agreed strategies,
management practices and codes of
conduct, and manage production in
order to reduce and manage risks
posed by disease and parasites,
including cumulative environmental
impacts and social conflict.

Biosecurity
Mitigating the risks and impacts on
the economy, the environment, social
amenity or human health associated
with pests and diseases.

Carrying capacity
Carrying capacity is the amount
of a given activity that can be
accommodated within the
environmental capacity of a defined
area. In aquaculture, it is usually
considered to be the maximum
quantity of fish that any particular
body of water can support over a
long period without negative effects
to the fish and to the environment
(FAO, 2009; Ross et al., 2013).

Coastal zone management
The management of coastal and
marine areas and resources for
the purposes of sustainable use,
development and protection
(IUCN, 2009).

Ecosystem
A dynamic complex of plant, animal
and micro-organism communities and
their nonliving environment interacting
as a functional unit (Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment, 2005).

Ecosystem boundaries
The boundaries of a system of
complex interactions of ecosystemlinked
populations (including humans)
between themselves and with their
environment.

Evaluation
Evaluation is the systematic
examination of a project in order to
determine its efficiency, effectiveness,
impact, sustainability and relevance of
its objectives.

Fallowing
This refers to leaving an aquaculture
site empty of fish stock and all
removable production structures for
a certain period of time. It can be
done for environmental or sanitary
reasons. For an aquaculture company,
fallowing implies having several
sites in order to maintain production
capacity year-round (IUCN, 2009).

Indicator
Indicator is a parameter, or a value
derived from parameters, which
points to, provides information
about, and describes the state of a
phenomenon/environment/area, with
a significance extending beyond that
directly associated with a parameter
value (OECD, 2003).

Issue tree
An issue tree, also called a logic
tree, is a graphical breakdown of an
issue that dissects it into its different
components vertically.

Management areas
Management areas are defined
geographical waterbody areas where
all the operators in the management
area agree (coordinate and cooperate)
to certain management practices or
codes of conduct.

Monitoring
Monitoring is the continuous or
periodic surveillance of the physical
implementation of a project to ensure
that inputs, activities, outputs and
external factors are proceeding as
planned.

Operational objectives
Operational objectives are measurable
production, environmental and
additional socioeconomic targets to
be achieved within immediate and
long-term scales.

Risk assessment
Risk assessment focusing on a variety
of ecological attributes in order to
protect the environmental, economic,
social and cultural values identified by
society.

Site selection
Site selection is the process by
which various factors indicated are
considered to enable one to decide
on the right site for a specific culture
system, or alternatively, to decide
on a culture system that suits the
available site (Kutty, 1987; Ross et al.,
2013).

Site management
Refers to all the actions involved in
maintaining the activity on the site,
including the environmental, legal,
administrative and managerial aspects
of the activity (IUCN, 2009).

Spatial planning
Refers to the methods used by
the public sector to influence the
distribution of people and activities
in spaces of various scales. Spatial
planning takes place at local,
regional, national and international
levels and often results in the creation
of a spatial plan. Spatial planning
also entails a system that is not only
spatial, but one that also engages
processes and secures outcomes
that are sustainable, integrated and
inclusive (FAO, 2013).

Social capacity
carrying Social carrying capacity is the level
of development above which
unacceptable social impacts would
occur.

Stakeholder
Person, group or organization that
has a direct or indirect interest in
an activity normally initiated by a
management authority or other
stakeholders or is affected or has an
interest in an objective or policies
established by such management
authority (IUCN, 2009).

Surveillance
Means a systematic series of
investigations of a given population
of aquatic animals to detect the
occurrence of disease for control
purposes, and which may involve
testing samples of a population.

Surveillance zone
Means a zone in which a systematic
series of investigations of a given
population of aquatic animals takes
place.

Targeted surveillance Zone
Means surveillance targeted at a
specific disease or infection.
Means a portion of one or more
countries comprising an entire
catchment area from the source of
a waterway to the estuary, more
than one catchment area, part of a
catchment area from the source of
a waterway to a barrier, or a part of
the coastal area, or an estuary with
a precise geographical delimitation
that consists of a homogeneous
hydrological system.

Zoning
Means identifying zones for disease
control purposes.
(aquatic animal health)

Zoning
Zoning implies bringing together the
criteria for locating aquaculture and
other activities in order to define broad
zones suitable for different activities or
mixes of activities. Zoning may be used
either as a source of information for
potential developers (for example, by
identifying those areas most suited to
a particular activity); or as a planning
and regulating tool, in which different
zones are identified and characterized
as meeting certain objectives
(GESAMP, 2001).