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    INTEGRATING AQUACULTURE, FISHERIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE

    We study environmental stressors and their effects on commercial populations

    With the rapid expansion and intensification of aquaculture and the depletion of commercial fish stocks world-wide, the future of fish is dependent on sustainable use of this precious resource. I am interested in the following main areas:

    Many salmon net pens are located in the pristine Nootka Sound, British Columbia

    INTERACTIONS BETWEEN AQUACULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

    1.) How aquaculture sites interact with the natural environment and what mitigation strategies can be adopted to minimize impact to wild populations

    2.) How environmental conditions within a closed-containment aquaculture system – such as carbon dioxide levels, temperature, salinity, feeding, light, disease, water quality, etc. – affect fish physiology, health and development

    Juvenile fish seine, Okisollo Channel, British Columbia

    EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON WILD COMMERCIAL POPULATIONS

    We are researching how ocean acidification, in combination with temperature, O2, salinity and food availability, affect wild commercial species, such as juvenile Pacific salmon during their ocean migration.

    Intertidal, Nootka Island, British Columbia

    LOCAL VARIABILITY IN COASTAL DYNAMIC SYSTEMS AND ADAPTATION POTENTIAL TO CLIMATE CHANGE

    Here we focus on how local variability in environmental factors, such as temperature, salinity, O2 and CO2 affect the resilience of early stages of fish to climate change. These include local upwelling events, air-exposure during embryonic development for tidally spawning fish, and mitigation effects of primary producers such as kelp.

    Applied Animal Biology
    Faculty of Land and Food Systems
    Vancouver Campus
    2357 Main Mall
    Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
    Website www.landfood.ubc.ca/andrea-frommel/
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