Pre-project: Climate Change as an Opportunity towards Adaptive Sustainable Aquaculture (CADINAL)

Abstract

Cultured food fish currently accounts for nearly 50 % of the global consumption. India and Norway are the world’s second and seventh largest aquaculture producers respectively, thus aquaculture is considered to be a sector which provides immense opportunities in both adaptation and mitigation under climate change realm in both countries. India and Norway is located in the tropical, and in the cold temperate zone respectively. Furthermore, freshwater aquaculture dominates in India, while in Norway marine water aquaculture dominates. While feed inputs for Indian carps mainly stems from agriculture, the salmon still depends on feeds input from fisheries. Thus the two countries aquaculture industries could be regarded as two extremities within world aquaculture, and a comparison will be highly valuable. The overall objective of this pre-project was to build a holistic and integrated knowledge base that would enable a future quantitative analysis of the dynamic two way interactions between climate change and the aquaculture sector. This report sums up the knowledge basis on the impacts of climate change on Norwegian aquaculture, assess the feasibility for an in-depth quantitative analysis on the impacts of climate change on Norwegian aquaculture, and sums up common research challenges between Norway and India. The knowledge basis on the impacts of climate change on Indian aquaculture is summed up in a separate report