Environmental Assessment Tool for
Aquaculture in the Great Lakes Basin
Version 1.2
by
Deborah J. Brister
1,3
and
Anne R. Kapuscinski
1
1,2,3
University of Minnesota, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and Conservation
Biology
2
Minnesota Sea Grant College Program
3
Institute for Social, Economic and Ecological Sustainability
Part Two: Assessment Pathway Flowcharts
Prepared for the Great Lakes Fishery Commission
Council of Lake Committees
Link to Table of Contents
Link to Part One (Introductory Materials, Supporting Text and
Summary Documentation)
Table of Contents
Part 2
Assessment Pathway Flowcharts
I.
Determination of Pathway
1
II.
Assessment of Suitable Environment (lake-based)
3
III.
Effects on Other Lake Users (lake-based)
4
IV.
Disease Effects (lake-based)
6
V.
Impacts on Recovery or Rehabilitation Plans (lake-based)
8
VI.
Impacts on Areas of Concern (lake-based)
9
VII.
Effects of Settleable Solids on Benthos and Shellfish (lake-based)
11
VIII.
Impacts on Breeding Areas, Nurseries and Fish-eating Animals
(lake-based)
13
IX.
Water Quality and Cumulative Impacts (lake-based)
15
X.
Impacts of Facility and Infrastructure (lake-based)
16
XI.
Genetic Effects (lake-based)
17
XII.
Facility Connection to the Great Lakes (land-based)
21
XIII.
Genetically Engineered Organisms (GEOs) Assessment (land-based)
23
XIV. Disease Assessment (land-based)
24
XV.
27
Effluent Assessment (land-based)
XVI. Habitat Alterations (land-based)
29
XVII. Water Source Assessment (land-based)
30
Link to Part One (Introductory Materials, Supporting Text and
Summary Documentation)