Increasing the Economical Efficiency and Sustainability of Indoor Fish Farming by Means of Aquaponics - Review
Keywords:
aquaculture, aquaponics, hydroponics, organic products, recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS)Abstract
This review focuses on increasing economical efficiency and sustainability of indoor fish farming. Aspects like
sustainability and economical efficiency were reviewed. In order to improve man`s health we must reconsider the
agricultural sciences, by this we understand that we must develop technologies friendly for the environment.
Sustainable indoor fish farming is the farming of the new millennium. Combining aquaculture with hydroponics we
obtain a new innovation named aquaponics which respects principles of sustainable agriculture (wastewater
biofiltration by plants) and gives us the possibility to increase economical efficiency with an additional production
(organic vegetables).
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