Habitat Regeneration
Coastal shrimp farming can support mangrove protection and restoration.
Mangrove habitats provide a wealth of ecosystem services, from providing a nursery for marine species and a home for migratory species, to physically protecting coastal communities, intercepting pollutants, and capturing carbon to fight climate change.
Preserving and restoring mangroves preserves and increases these benefits.
Landscape-level aquaculture management can contribute to the protection and restoration of mangrove forests and the full range of ecosystem services they provide.
SFP’s research on aquaculture and mangrove regeneration shows that both abandoned and active aquaculture ponds are providing the setting for mangrove recovery to take place. This presents a huge opportunity for the farmed shrimp industry to help bring back lost mangrove habitat.
Benefits of mangrove regeneration
- For retailers and seafood companies, it can help deliver on your environmental, social, and governance (ESG) commitments and contribute toward many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
- For the shrimp industry and supply chain, it can lead to collaboration to meet the habitat restoration criteria of national and international certification schemes and the ESG commitments of retailers.
What can I do?
Contact us to learn more about aquaculture and habitat regeneration, and how we can help you identify target areas for landscape-level regeneration.