The partnership
Carrying capacity and impact of aquaculture on the environment in Chinese bays
INCO-DC contract Nš ERBIC4CT 98-0291
The partnership which carried out this work included three European and four Chinese laboratories, and Dalhousie University in Canada, which was sub-contracted to IFREMER. The partner institutes are shown in the table, together with the name and contact of the lead scientist from each.
| The consortium
carried out fieldwork, laboratory and in situ experiments and numerical
modelling on two bays where shellfish aquaculture plays an important role
in the local economy.
Jiaozhou Bay is a 400km2 bay adjacent to Qingdao (pop. 6 million), a very busy port in Northern China, and Sanggou Bay is a smaller system (140km2) further to the north, dedicated almost exclusively to polyculture of shellfish and seaweeds. |
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IFREMER coordinated the project as a whole, and the First Institute of Oceanography of China was responsible for coordinating the work carried out by the Chinese partners. The project management was carried out by a steering committee which was composed of the lead scientists from the different teams.