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What is aquaponics?

What is aquaponics? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (agriculture) A sustainable food production system that combines traditional aquaculture with hydroponics, with effluent from the water in which fish are reared being used as nutrition for plants. [from 1930s]
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Fish waste can be used as a fertilizer for aquaponics that grow other products, notably agricultural products in greenhouses.
Tilapia is being raised by a company in Nova Scotia involved with aquaponics.
A new indoor fish-growing and aquaponics facility will enable inmates to grow fish for meals and produce fertilizer that will allow them to grow produce year-round.
Mini aquaponics systems that can supply all of a restaurant's fish and produce needs.
Joel Malcolm, who opened the world's first aquaponics retail store, Backyard Aquaponics, in the Australian city of Perth, sells about 300 systems a year.
For now, Entom Foods is looking to develop insect-based animal feeds, particularly for aquaponics.

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