Outline • Why Risk Assessment for Marine Aquaculture? • What is Risk Assessment

Development) endorses the precautionary approach to development. – “Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation” • Recognize that decisions are not made by science but science can and should objectively inform decision making • Science cannot prove a lack of an effect. So, how can science help to apply the precautionary approach to marine aquaculture