About
Urban aquaculture means cultivating fish for food in a controlled environment, and harvesting them when they reach the appropriate size. Due to over-fishing and degradation of natural habitats, aquaculture has become an environmentally and socially sound alternative to commercial fishing. Aquaculture reduces the dependency on wild fish populations as a food source.
Aquaculture research in Baltimore
Submitted by admin on Sun, 07/05/2009 - 18:15The Baltimore Sun has a piece on marine aquaculture research at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute's Center of Marine Biotechnology.
The story can be found here:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/bal-md.gr.fish01jul01,0,73217...
Tour of an aquaculture facility in Benin
Submitted by bibby777 on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 14:09Royal Fish, a company in Benin, operates an aquaculture facility raising tilapia and catfish. This video shows the facility and the various stages of fish production.
Indoor recirculating aquaculture system
Submitted by tilapia on Wed, 05/27/2009 - 10:54Visit to an indoor facility using recirculating aquaculture to raise tilapia, yellow perch, striped bass and other species year-round, with an explanation of important factors in operating an aquaculture system.
New Features
Submitted by admin on Sat, 05/23/2009 - 11:56If you maintain a blog on another site, you can now cross post your blog entries to this site using a blog API at http://www.urban-aquaculture.com/xmlrpc.php
Blogger Data API, MetaWeblog API, and most of the Movable Type API are currently supported.
It is now also possible to automatically include your Tweets on this site by adding your Twitter username to the Activity Stream section of your user profile.
