Aquaculture is not commonly considered a collective form of aquatic food production in need of collaborative management. Nevertheless, aquaculture in its many forms is dependent on a range of shared public resources derived from inland, coastal and marine ecosystems. Aquaculture producers also face a range of production risks - such as disease and water quality - that also extend beyond the boundaries of their farms and interact with these wider ecosystems. This presentation introduces the concept of ‘aquaculture co-management’ or collaborative aquaculture management as a means of ensuring socially and environmentally responsible aquatic food production. Defined as a set of strategic and operational collaborative arrangements that enable shared but differentiated responsibility, rights and benefits, aquaculture co-management can assist members states to implement ecosystem approaches to aquaculture, and also achieve many of the wider social and environmental ambitions set out in global aquatic food policy - including the FAO Blue Transformations Roadmap to 2030. The presentation will elaborate four types of co-management – (1) communal, (2) collective, (3) intersectoral and (4) zonal (see Figure 1) - and their potential for implementation in inland, coastal, and marine areas around the world.