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Figure 19 - Aquaculture: monitoring onitoring systems to evaluate effects
Legend:
Countries with with monitoring systems systems to to evaluate evaluate the the effects effects and and impacts of aquaculture
aquaculture
activities on the environment.
Countries without without monitoring monitoring systems systems to to evaluate the the effects effects and impacts impacts of of aquaculture
aquaculture
activities on the environment.
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Formally, monitoring programs are are extensively extensively implemented in in the the GFCM GFCM area, area, since near near 70% of
the countries have have some some tools to follow the impact of of aquaculture aquaculture activities. Only Only Egypt, Egypt, Montenegro,
Lebanon and Albania mentioned mentioned that that they lack lack monitoring monitoring programs for the activity, wherea whereas wherea
Slovenia does not provide information on this matter.
Generally countries compile monitoring programs as part of the EIA. In Croatia, the Environmental
Protection Act Act regulates regulates monitoring monitoring of marine marine aquaculture, and the monitoring procedures procedures are
regulated as part of the EIA for any individual farm site.
In Cyprus, all all the marine marine fish fish farms that that are are operating in the sea area are obliged by law to submit
twice a year (in winter and and summer) summer) an environmental monitoring monitoring report report based based on a a protocol protocol that is
issued by the DFMR. The report is evaluated by this th authority and the Environmental Services and
action is taken if required. In general general, the report covers monitoring of nutrients in the water column,
sedimentation, macrobenthos, redox potential and macros macroscopic analysis and, in some cases, reporting
on Posidonia oceanica meadows.
Additionally, site inspections are made frequently in order to ensure compliance of the fish farm with
the terms and conditions that accompany the relevant aquaculture permit and the environmental
approval.
In Tunisia, for every project related to establishment of an aquaculture facility, , the promoter has to
undertake and provide to the relevant administration an impact study, study with the aim of meeting the