Backed by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), this emerging alternative to conventional aquaculture is shifting the emphasis towards enhancing ecosystem health and biodiversity – promising a more resilient blue economy

As the Mediterranean and the Black Sea face mounting ecological pressures from warming waters, rising salinity and nutrient stress, another form of aquaculture is coming to the fore – one that seeks not only to produce food, but to actively restore the ecosystems that sustain it.