Digitalization in the context of solving ecosystem problems in the fishing industry

Abstract

Intensification of fisheries and aquaculture leads to an increase in anthropogenic pressure on ecosystems. The stability of many aquatic ecosystems, the most important suppliers of goods and services for human needs, is currently threatened. The concept of sustainable development that includes ecosystem approach to management is called upon to eliminate the threat of their degradation due to excessive economic use. The paper discusses the key problems arising from the exploitation of aquatic ecosystems, analyzes the features of the ecosystem approach to fishery management, and proposes a modified bioeconomic model to describe how digitalization of the fishing industry promotes the solution of its ecological, economic and social problems. The authors concluded that digital technologies make it possible to more accurately identify the optimal scale of fisheries and sustainability of aquatic ecosystems as the basic resources of this activity. Digitalization helps move to a new bioeconomic technological platform in fisheries, which is a responsible involvement of biological resources in the economic circulation that ensures a balanced and harmonious coexistence of business and ecosystems.