Availability and usefulness of economic data on the effects of aquaculture: a North Atlantic comparative assessment

This article is based upon work from COST Action OceansPast Platform (OPP – IS1403), supported by COST (Euro-pean Cooperation in Science and Technology). We gratefully acknowledge support also from the institutions of the authors, and discussions in the ICES Working Group onSocial and Economic Dimensions of Aquaculture. In particular, we thank Max Troell, Cecile Brugere and Max Ebeling for input. Lucia Fanning was supported by the Ocean Frontier Institute Large Research Project on Social Licenseand Planning in Coastal Communities