Nursery of tilapia in aquaponic system using biofloc technology

• Grant number: 16/14966-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: October 01, 2016
• End date: February 28, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Fishery Resources and Fishery Engineering - Aquaculture
• Principal Investigator: Maria Célia Portella
• Grantee: Sara M Pinho
• Host Institution: Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Segmenting the supply chain is an important strategy for farmers. However, there are only few reports on the use of nursery to produce tilapia juveniles in Brazil and more studies, mainly related to new technologies, should be performed to diversify the activity. In this context, the biofloc system (BFT) is an interesting alternative. The system is characterized by being an aquaculture technology with minimal or zero water exchange, with high stocking density, supported the formation of a microbial community that provides numerous benefits to the cultured organisms. However, this system can generate wastewater with high concentrations of nutrients. Thus, one of the possible options to environmentally employ the BFT system in tilapia nursery, would be to use the excess of nutrients for, for example, crop production in an integrated farming system. Therefore, the aquaponics emerges as a sustainable alternative production, because it uses the aquaculture effluent to nurture and produce vegetables. Nonetheless, the use of bioflocos technology, mainly integrated with aquaponics, during the post-reversal stage of tilapia production is practically nonexistent. In order to fill this gap, we propose to evaluate the aquaponics production of juvenile tilapia (~ 0.1 to 30 g) and lettuce using biofloc technology. To this end, this proposal has a multidisciplinary team that aims to correlate the data of productive performance (zootechnical parameters) with morphological and morphometric analysis of muscle fibers; chemical water parameters, lettuce crop, fish production and feed utilization, as well as the microbial and chemical composition of bioflocos. It will also be carried out an economic feasibility analysis of the integrated system, thus contributing to the generation of a package of information about the rearing of tilapia fingerlings aquaponics systems using biofloc technology. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PINHO, SARA M.; DAVID, LUIZ HENRIQUE C.; GODDEK, SIMON; EMERENCIANO, MAURICIO G. C.; PORTELLA, MARIA CELIA. Integrated production of Nile tilapia juveniles and lettuce using biofloc technology. AQUACULTURE INTERNATIONAL, v. 29, n. 1, p. 37-56, FEB 2021. (16/14966-2)

PINHO, SARA M. M.; FLORES, ROBERTO MANOLIO VALLADAO H.; DAVID, LUIZ H. K.; EMERENCIANO, MAURICIO G. C.; QUAGRAINIE, KWAMENA K.; PORTELLA, MARIA CELIA. Economic comparison between conventional aquaponics and FLOCponics systems. Aquaculture, v. 552, p. 8-pg., 2022-02-03. (16/14966-2)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

PINHO, Sara M. Nursery of tilapia in an aquaponic system using biofloc technology. 2018. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias. Jaboticabal Jaboticabal.