Journal of Aquatic Ecology

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 The aquaculture industry in Iran as a sustainable and important agricultural activity can ensure food security and safety with minimal harm to the environment. Guilan province is an important pole of aquaculture in Iran, and therefore can play a main role in this concept. This descriptive-survey research was aimed to study the extensional- educational methods of sustainable aquaculture relying on environmental issues in Guilan province. The studied society consisted of fishery experts (30 people) and aquaculture farmers (365 people). The fishery experts were selected according to the census method, and the aquaculture farmers were chosen using proportional stratified method. Questionnaire validity and its reliability were confirmed by 15 university professors and Cronbach's alpha (value 0.73), respectively. The most important results of this research showed that educational level, amount of land of aquaculture farmers, amount of land under cultivation of fish farming, participation in specialized educational- extensional classes and participation in educational extensional classes related to environmental issues and satisfaction of aquaculture have positive and significant correlations with the environmental knowledge of sustainable aquaculture production. Also holding extension-education courses, specialized-training workshops, model farms and farm schools relying on respect for environmental issues of sustainable production, are the main methods for extension of sustainable aquaculture.

Keywords: aquaculture, extension methods, sustainable agriculture

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