Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Finding suitable environmental sites for aquaculture

Aquaculture is a booming industry, but that means effluent from fish farms will be booming, too. What happens to that drifting waste in coastal settings is critical to maintaining a healthy environment, but little has been known about how that waste travels once it is no longer down on the farm, writes Louis Bergeron for Stanford University. Stanford researchers have developed a highly detailed computer simulation that will help find suitable sites for aquaculture and help monitor any plumes of waste wafting through the waters.

One of the fastest-growing segments of livestock farming in the United States is aquaculture, according to Roz Naylor, a Stanford professor of environmental Earth system science. And like any other form of livestock, fish generate waste. But just what happens to the waste produced by coastal aquaculture has largely been a matter of conjecture. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers
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