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A preliminary study on the potential value of a novel integrated aquaculture system on water purification

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Intensive and semi-intensive sea cucumber aquaculture produces effluents that impact the quality of the local aquatic environment and sea cucumber growth; such effluents are an important cause of coastal water eutrophication. Integrated aquaculture has been shown to efficiently reduce the release of nutrients during aquaculture and to provide economic benefits. In this study, we report our investigation of a polyculture system utilizing Styela clava (stalked sea squirt) and Stichopus japonicus (Japanese sea cucumber) under two feeding modes. To examine purification of the water in the system, nutrients in the water and the sediment, attached heterotrophic bacteria, and the survival rates and growth rates of S. clava and S. japonicus were determined. Tank cultivation trials showed that, under the same feeding modes, the concentration of nutrients in the polyculture system was approximately 50–60 % of the sum of the nutrients in the S. japonicus mixture and S. clava monoculture systems. The abundance of attached heterotrophic bacteria in the polyculture system was remarkably lower than that of the mixed culture system under the same feeding mode. S. japonicus in the polyculture system grew better than those in the mixed culture system under the same feeding mode. These results demonstrate that the S. clava–S. japonicus integrated culture system offers a means of constraining or reversing the pollutive impacts of coastal sea cucumber aquaculture.

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This study was funded by the National Natural Science Fund Committee of China (Grants 31001113 and 31070368) and the National Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (BS2010HZ022, ZR2014CM031).

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  1. Dalian University of Technology, School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Dalian, 116024, Liaoning, China

    Li-hong Chen

  2. Yantai University, College of Life Science, Yantai, 264005, Shandong, China

    Li-hong Chen, Rong-lian Xing, Ai-li Jiang & Li Teng

  3. Nanjing Agricultural University, College of Resources and Environment Science, Nanjing, 210095, Jiangsu, China

    Li Teng & Chang-hai Wang

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Chen, Lh., Xing, Rl., Jiang, Al. et al. A preliminary study on the potential value of a novel integrated aquaculture system on water purification. Aquacult Int 24, 879–892 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10499-015-9958-8

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