Towards Integration of Environmental and Health Impact Assessments for Wild Capture Fishing and Farmed Fish with Particular Reference to Public Health and Occupational Health Dimensions

Andrew Watterson, David Little, James A. Young, Kathleen Boyd, Ekram Azim and Francis Murray
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Andrew Watterson: Occupational and Environmental Health Research Group, University of Stirling, Scotland
David Little: Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Scotland
James A. Young: Department of Marketing, University of Stirling, Scotland
Kathleen Boyd: Public Health and Health Policy, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Ekram Azim: Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada
Francis Murray: Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Scotland

IJERPH, 2008, vol. 5, issue 4, 1-20

Abstract: The paper offers a review and commentary, with particular reference to the production of fish from wild capture fisheries and aquaculture, on neglected aspects of health impact assessments which are viewed by a range of international and national health bodies and development agencies as valuable and necessary project tools. Assessments sometimes include environmental health impact assessments but rarely include specific occupational health and safety impact assessments especially integrated into a wider public health assessment. This is in contrast to the extensive application of environmental impact assessments to fishing and the comparatively large body of research now generated on the public health effects of eating fish. The value of expanding and applying the broader assessments would be considerable because in 2004 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reports there were 41,408,000 people in the total ‘fishing’ sector including 11,289,000 in aquaculture. The paper explores some of the complex interactions that occur with regard to fishing activities and proposes the wider adoption of health impact assessment tools in these neglected sectors through an integrated public health impact assessment tool.

Keywords: health; impact; assessments; fishing; aquaculture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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