Institutional Ensuring of Mariculture: International and Ukrainian Context

Introduction. Sustainable development of mariculture as a highly productive industry is a potential and source of income and contributions to the national economy, a guarantee of food and environmental security, socioeconomic benefits for coastal areas. The effective development of mariculture requires a stable basis as an institutional support, which, unfortunately, is not characterized by a high enough level in Ukraine. Aim and tasks. The aim of the study is to analyze and evaluate the institutional support for the development of mariculture in Ukraine and the implementation of international experience in national practice. The main tasks of the study are: to study the features of theoretical and applied ukrainian context of mariculture development to determine the possibilities of implementing international experience; to analyze ukrainian and international institutional basis for the development of mariculture and the cultivation of marine organisms; to develop conclusions and recommendations on the current state and development of institutional support for mariculture in Ukraine on the basis of compliance with international requirements and the possibility of their implementation. Results. The concept of mariculture is theoretically substantiated by its definition in texts of the legal framework. The analysis of the ukrainian and international institutional context of mariculture development is based on the procedure of measures on the development of institutional support for mariculture in Ukraine in the context of the implementation of international experience of world leaders in mariculture development, European Union countries, and countries with short traditions of marine cultivation. Conclusions. A detailed interpretation of the concept of mariculture for its definition in the texts of the legal framework of Ukraine based on the characteristics of the industry presented in the legal documents of Ukraine, the European Union, world leaders in mariculture, dictionaries and works of prominent Ukrainian and foreign scholars. A procedure for measures to develop institutional support for mariculture in Ukraine in the form of an algorithm for implementing the international experience of world leaders in mariculture, the European Union and countries with short traditions of marine organisms.