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Kelp biochar: a potential plant substrate for freshwater aquaponics

Published: May 4, 2017
Summary
At the University of New Brunswick in Canada, researchers have developed a pilot-scale aquaponics system to select plants that are best adapted to efficiently recapture nutrients from salmon hatchery effluents. Along the way they’ve developed a novel substrate on which to grow the plants. In many aquaponic systems, it is common to use a substrate such as foam, coconut coir, rock-wool or ex...
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Dr. Thierry Chopin
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mohammad javad Mohammadi
10 de mayo de 2017

This project is very good, in the future aquaculture is going to aquaponic.

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Temesgen Gebremeskel Gebreluel
4 de julio de 2018
Very interesting and innovative work.
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George Parson
5 de septiembre de 2018
How log at high temperature is required for production
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