Aquaponics

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Abstract

Freshwater aquaponics has been performed widely, especially in the United States, to culture channel catfish and tomato, tilapia and lettuce, or tilapia and basil/okra. However, many of these systems are used as learning tools in school science curricula, but not as industrial systems for harvesting aquaponics products. In Japan, because of marine fish aquaculture’s dominance over freshwater fish aquaculture, and because the majority of offshore aquaculture use net cage culture, water pollution from offshore mariculture has become a serious issue. However, if mariculture can be conducted using a land-based recirculation system and the associated waste can be recycled for plant cultivation, an organic farming system to cultivate both fish and plants could be realized, and environmental conservation could be improved. In this section, we review previously reported approaches to aquaponics, present the results of our preliminary studies, and discuss the directional strategy of aquaponics in Japan.

Keywords

Aquaculture Aquaponics Fish Hydroponics Plant Recirculating fish culture system 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Tokyo University of Marine Science and TechnologyMinatoJapan

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