Aquaponics

Following a €3.7 million deal, Agtira is poised to produce salmon, cucumbers, tomatoes and herbs in an aquaponics facility beside the Östersund branch of Sweden’s largest supermarket chain, Maxi ICA.

A €900,000 project to promote aquaponics in Italy and Tunisia has been launched this week.

A novel water purification system inspired sewage plants has been shown to be effective at optimising fish waste for use as fertiliser for plants in aquaponics facilities.

The case for aquaponics – typically the co-culture of fish and edible plants – as a means to improve food security may be regularly overstated by well-meaning idealists. Yet a range of aquaponics initiatives have proved …

Former salmon farmer Dr Carl Mazur aims to design an aquaponics system that could one day be used on Mars. In the meantime, he aims to use it to produce high value fish and flowers on Earth.

Dr James Rakocy, who has been involved in designing systems that produce both plants and fish since the 1970s, reveals his hard-won experience in a sector that is only set to grow.

With pandemic-related lockdowns and ageing farmers putting pressure on the Philippines’ food system, researchers at BFAR are embracing urban aquaponics to shore up the islands’ food security.

Genetically modified tilapia showed enhanced growth and reduced biological stress when raised in an integrated biofloc and aquaponics system.

Desmond Chow, the founder of Singapore Crawfish, is so convinced that crayfish aquaculture is ripe for investment that he’s spent the past two years, and considerable amounts of his own capital, developing a range of cra…

An non-profit initiative designed to encourage more Americans to set up their own own backyard aquaculture systems has just put its first commercial batch of yellow perch fingerlings up for sale.

A ground-breaking aquaponics research project has been launched to help Rwandan farmers to improve their livelihoods and levels of nutrition.

Auburn University’s Aquaculture and Fisheries Business Institute will hold a Commercial Aquaponics Workshop in Auburn, Alabama from 11-13 November.

Farmers in several parts of Uganda have been recognised for their outstanding performance in the country’s first ever aquaponics farming awards ceremony.

The use of aquaculture-derived waste products to grow secondary crops – such as used in biofloc systems or aquaponics – can increase profits by more than 20 percent, as some of the leading proponents of this field explai…

Superior Fresh’s aquaponics facilty in Wisconsin is both the world’s largest aquaponics system and “the ultimate IMTA”, according to Dr Steve Summerfelt.

The founder of one of Canada’s most ambitious aquaponics projects has decided to grow cannabis, rather than salad plants, in conjunction with tilapia.

Aquaponics is helping to keep farmers in drought-ravaged parts of Uganda alive, according to Dr Aisha Nalwoga, a fisheries officer with the Water Governance Institute.

Supplying cannabis for medical use in Canada – which is legal for licenced producers – is a competitive business. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, Green Relief Inc uses fish in an innovative aquaponics system to grow its crop…

One of the world’s largest aquaponics facilities has attained Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification.