Time to rethink tropic levels in aquaculture policy

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We explored how the trophic level of farmed species has shifted in recent years due to feed composition - and implications of this in using trophic level as a sustainability measure.

WorldFish staff feeding fish cages, credit WorldFish

This article was honored as a Sena de Silva paper which recognises high quality articles that excel in one, or more of the following qualities: i) Novelty and originality, ii) likelihood of direct positive impacts for the aquaculture sector, with keen focus on any of, or all three: environmental sustainability, economic viability, and social responsibility, iii) overall quality of scientific reasonings coupled with real-world applicability.

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