231253 Introduction to aquaculture and public health issues

Monday, November 8, 2010 : 8:30 AM - 8:50 AM

David Love, PhD, MSPH , Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
     
Aquaculture is increasing to meet a growing global demand for seafood. Growth in the intensive food aquaculture has led to potentially hazardous, yet largely uncharacterized public health risks from chemotherapeutic inputs for aquaculture, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and bioaccumulation of pollutants from feeding fish meal and fish oil to farmed seafood. An introduction and background to aquaculture and wild-caught fish, and the associated environmental, social and health issues related to intensive aquaculture will be discussed. This introduction will provide a springboard for discussion on related aquaculture and public health topics including aquaculture production practices, health risk-benefit of seafood, consumer demand, and sustainable aquaculture as a new approach to urban agriculture.

Learning Areas:
Environmental health sciences
Public health or related research

Learning Objectives:
Define intensive and extensive aquaculture. Explain public health connection to aquacultrue.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a public health professional who works on the topic aree of intrest in this session
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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