The European project Sustainable extensive and semi-intensive coastal
aquaculture in Southern Europe (SEACASE) included the proposal of
6 Codes of Conduct for the aquaculture systems studied during the
project work. These case studies are typical of the countries involved,
namely semi-intensive polyculture (Portugal and Spain), extensive
polyculture in esteros (Spain), integrated systems (France), valliculture
(Italy), nursery ponds (Greece, Portugal, France and Italy) and eel
ponds (France).
This article was written having as objective the providing of a concise
summary of the characteristics that SEACASE collaborators found to
be central to build a complete and trustable Certification system for
products of sustainable non-intensive aquaculture (for “certification
of sustainability”, see Ojeda, 2008). The 6 Codes of Conduct are the
basic information to build such a system in the future.This study has been carried out with the financial support
from the Commission of the European Communities,
specific RTD programme “Specific Support to Policies”,
SSP-2005-44483 “SEACASE - Sustainable extensive and
semi-intensive coastal aquaculture in Southern Europe”,
and does not necessarily
reflect the European
Commission views and
in no way anticipates the
Commission’s future policy
in this area.Peer reviewe
