Development of aquaculture productivity 4.

0 and seafood traceability system in

Taiwan
Jenn-Kan Lu
Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University
<F0008@mail.ntou.edu.tw>
Status of global fishery and aquaculture
Today, the global community faces multiple and interlinked challenges ranging
from the impacts of the ongoing financial and economic crisis to greater climate
change vulnerabilities and extreme weather events. At the same time, it must also
reconcile meeting the pressing food and nutrition needs of a growing population
with finite natural resources. Increasing agricultural productivity and access to food
are the primary development goals of the 21st century. Demand for food has reached
new heights, and predictions of future demand are discouraging. Overall, the world
will need 70100 percent more food by 2050, when the population increases to 9
billion.
Fisheries and aquaculture make crucial contributions to the worlds wellbeing
and prosperity. In the last five decades, world fish food supply has outpaced global
population growth, and today fish constitutes an important source of nutritious food
and animal protein for much of the worlds population. In addition, the sector
provides livelihoods and income, both directly and indirectly, for a significant share of
the worlds population
Fish and fishery products are among the most traded food commodities
worldwide, with trade volumes and values reaching new highs in 2011 and
expected to carry on rising, with developing countries continuing to account for
the bulk of world exports. While capture fisheries production remains stable,
aquaculture production keeps on expanding. Aquaculture is set to remain one of
the fastest-growing animal food-producing sectors and, in the next decade, total
production from both capture and aquaculture will exceed that of beef, pork or
poultry. With continuous growth of the worlds population, the problems of land
shortages and insufficient food supplies become increasingly serious. Therefore,
aquaculture is becoming an important component in agricultural production.
According to the FAO report (2003), aquaculture is likely to be the greatest source of
increased fish production, and its share in total food fish supply by 2030 is estimated
almost equal to the food fish supply from capture fisheries. During the past years of
improving the aquaculture productivity, which is based on year-round growth at

optimum rates with greatly reduced land and water requirements, coupled with a
high degree of environmental control, the aquaculture trend has emerged from
conventional open systems to high density and highly productive land-based
recirculation systems.
Agriculture/Aquaculture Productivity 4.0
In 2013 German government put forward the concept of industry 4.0, which
defines the important role of information technology in the industrialization process
having attracted great attentions of the international society. Two years later, the
agriculture productivity 4.0concept was raised in 2015, which has become a hot
subject of discussion. The agriculture 4.0 is a modern agricultural form supported
by internet of things, big data, mobile internet and cloud computing, having reached
to a high and smart level following the 1.0 traditional agriculture, the 2.0 mechanized
agriculture, the 3.0 information agriculture. With the continued technical progress,
the agriculture 4.0 may undergo several stages including primary stage, secondary
stage, advanced stage and final stage. The idea of agriculture 4.0 once again draws
peoples attention to the precision agriculture which backing up the development of
modern agriculture. Relevant information shows that the global precision agriculture
market will grow at CAGR 12.2% from 2014 to 2020 to reach $4.55 billion.
Since Taiwan is an island, the land and freshwater resources are very limited.
With an appropriate aquaculture climate and supporting system, Taiwan has grown
to become one of the aquacultural technique leading countries. Therefore, the future
development of aquaculture should be carefully planned and implemented. With the
rapid global changes in the 21st century, aquaculture in Taiwan should be
transformed into a knowledge-based, environment-friendly, high-tech industry in
order to remain competitive and sustainable. To revolutionize aquaculture, it is
essential to apply biotechnology and ICT technology strategies. For example,
land-based smart recirculating aquaculture systems are essential for Taiwan to
develop and extend toward a sustainable development.
Advanced traceability seafood supply chain
Food production and distribution systems are becoming more interdependent,
integrated, and globalized. At the same time, escalating and heavily publicized
outbreaks of foodborne diseases have raised awareness of the need to ensure food
quality and safety. This need drives much of the technological innovation to trace
food consistently and efficiently from the point of origin to the point of consumption.
Traceability is an increasingly common element of public and private systems for
monitoring compliance with quality, environmental, and other product and/or

process attributes related to food.

Fresh fish is a perishable product in which environmental parameters, such as
temperature and humidity, must be controlled and strictly maintained within
established limits. In Taiwan, a novel traceability system architecture based on web
services, which are used to integrate traceability data captured through Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID) systems with environmental data collected with
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) infrastructure. The solution, suitable to be
deployed in Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs), is provided by integrating
information collected along the entire food supply chain, tracking the products from
the farm to the consumer.