Tag aquaponics

• Leadership & Innovation

  February 26, 2018

  Experimental aquaponics system in Costa Rica

  This study evaluated the performance and production of channel catfish and freshwater prawns and three varieties of lettuce – American, Romaine and Rose – in a research aquaponics system. 

• Marketplace

  December 4, 2017

  City fish-farm prototype set to prove itself in Minnesota

  The Urban Organics model of farming leafy greens in conjunction with fish can work in any city environment, the company says. The first step is destroying East St. Paul’s image as a food desert. 

• Leadership & Innovation

  August 14, 2017

  Innovative aquaponics system frugal with fluids

  As global demand for food rises, the focus on water resources will intensify. In Berlin, a four-year research project is demonstrating the feasibility of aquaponics, which can drastically cut water inputs. 

• Consumer Education

  October 31, 2016

  An engineer’s design for a classroom aquaculture-aquaponics system

  An aquaponics teaching system was designed, built and operated by students at the University of Arizona, integrating its operation and management into the educational curriculum. This engineering design will require minimum maintenance and will last years. 

• Marketplace

  June 13, 2016

  Young aquaponics, aquaculture company gets big boost

  Fluid Farms, an aquaponics produce grower in Maine, leans on multi-trophic aquaculture to provide nutrients for its plants. The company is now selling its hybrid striped bass to the local market and, armed with a $50,000 innovation prize that will 

• Environmental & Social Responsibility

  July 2, 2015

  Aquaponic system produces red drum, saltwater vegetable species

  A project in Florida is studying the feasibility of a marine aquaponic system containing red drum and two native saltwater species. Water that exits the plant raceways is filtered and recirculated to the fish tanks. In tests, sea purslane grew 

• Leadership & Innovation

  September 2, 2013

  Recirculation meets aquaponics

  Today’s aquaculture industry is rapidly adopting recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) for hatchery and nursery applications. Recently, there has been a move to combine RAS technology with the floating raft aquaponics. 

• Animal Health & Welfare

  March 2, 2012

  Integrated aquaponics systems evaluated for arid zones of Chile

  Integrated aquaponic operations can improve water use efficiency because plants participate in nitrogen and phosphorus removal and integration. 

• Environmental & Social Responsibility

  January 1, 2012

  Integrated marine aquaculture-agriculture: Sea farming out of the sea

  Aquaponic systems are robust, management is not difficult, and the synergies between fish and plants make vegetable production more profitable than aquaculture alone. The lion’s share of marine agriculture involves salt-tolerant halophytic plants used as food or feed, or in