This report includes four regional reviews on Environmental impact assessment (EIA) and monitoring in aquaculture in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America; a special study on EIA as applied to salmon aquaculture; and a global review and synthesis report which draw on the findings of the review papers, covering relevant information from more than 35 countries. In addition, this document provides the report of a workshop on the subject held at FAO headquarters in Rome in September 2008. The print document includes the contents, abstract, list of contributors, executive summary and the global review; in addition, the regional reviews, workshop report and appendices (over 600 pages in total) are provided in PDF in the accompanying CD-ROM.