The Ohio Sustainable Farm Tour and Workshop Series continues Friday at Project AquaStar in Columbus’s Linden neighborhood. The project “is a multifaceted aquaponics, waste reduction and composting business enterprise,” the tour description says. “The site includes an aquaponics system utilizing six 1,200-gallon tanks. … Tilapia fish are produced in the system in an effort to help address food insecurity in the Linden community.” Details (PDF, p. 31). (Photo: Project AquaStar.)
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Just add fish; or, lettuce use our water well
CFAES’s OSU South Centers are holding an Aquaponics Workshop July 10-11 in Piketon. Aquaponic food-production systems combine aquaculture (raising fish) with hydroponics (growing plants in water, like the hydroponic lettuce shown here). (Photo: iStock.)
Touring with fish
The next First Friday Aquaculture Tour is 10 a.m. to noon today, June 5, at CFAES’s OSU South Centers in Piketon. (Photo: Young rainbow trout by Stephen Ausmus, USDA-ARS.)
‘We need new, dynamic, cost-effective technologies for aquaculture’
Nine-plus billion. That is what the global population is expected to reach by the year 2050, precipitating an unprecedented demand for food and other resources. The statistic and its implications have dominated discussions at recent international meetings and symposia, with a particular emphasis on the need to sustainably intensify agricultural production. Often overlooked, however, is how the world’s developing regions are beginning to look beyond their staple food sources (rice, corn, etc.) and more toward fish and other seafood to feed their growing populations. This trend has been the motivation behind research conducted by CFAES’s Mohammad Alam, a PhD student in fisheries and wildlife …
How to get started farming fish
CFAES’s Ohio Center for Aquaculture Research and Development has released a free series of how-to videos for new and aspiring fish farmers. (Photo: Yellow perch by USDA-ARS.)
Fish farm facility to offer free tours; first one is Friday, May 2
CFAES’s Ohio Center for Aquaculture Research and Development, located at the Ohio State University South Centers in Piketon, is offering free monthly tours of its facilities, including its fish hatchery. New, beginning and experienced fish farmers, and anyone else interested in fish farming, are welcome. “Aquaculture,” says a webpage by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “is currently playing, and will continue to play, a big part in boosting global fish production and in meeting rising demand for fishery products.” (Photo: USDA.)
Want to be a fish farmer? CFAES will train you
Ohio needs fish farmers. And CFAES’s Ohio Center for Aquaculture Research and Development is offering you a chance to train to become one. (Note: The signup deadline is Nov. 15.) Program organizers say the demand for seafood keeps growing, and the opportunities for making a fish farm a sustainable business are growing right along with it. (Photo: USDA.)