Salmon Aquaculture in the Pacific Northwest:
Enivironmental Impacts and Policy Options
Rosamond Naylor
- Senior Fellow, Center for Environmental Science &
Policy, Stanford University
Seminar Abstract:
Rapid growth in aquaculture,
or farmed fish production, is seen by many people as a solution to the collapse
in ocean fisheries worldwide. For intensive production of carnivorous,
high-valued species such as salmon, however, this view is strongly contested.
Dr. Naylor will address this topic by focusing on the growing salmon aquaculture
industry in the Pacific Northwest. She will discuss the ecological, economic,
social, and policy interactions between farmed and wild salmon and show how
policy incentives directed toward fishing and aquaculture production are
often in conflict. She will conclude with an assessment of future policy
options.
Biography:
Rosamond Naylor is currently
a senior fellow at the Center for Environmental Science and Poplicy (CESP)
at Stanford University. She recieved her B.A. in Econimics and the Environmental
Studies from the University of Colorado, her M.Sc. in Econonomics from the
London School of Economics, and her Ph.D. in Applied Econimics from Stanford
University. She has been the coordinator for the interdisciplinary environmental
studies program since she came to CESP in 1989, and has been responsible
for facilitating research and teaching at the interfaces of biological sciences,
earth sciences, engineering, economics, business, law, and medicine. Her
research fosuses on the environmetnal and equity dimensions of intensive
food production in the developing world. She has been involved in a
number of field-level research projects in Southeast Asia--and more recently
in Mexico and Micronesia-- concerning issues of aquaculture developement,
high-input agricultural development, climate-induced yield variability, and
food security. Naylor was named Fellow in the Aldo Leopold Leadership
Program in Environmental Sciences in 1999; Pew Fellow in Conservation and
the Environment in 1994; and McNamara Fellow by the World Bank for her work
on women and rural developement in 1990.