Matthew Smith, aquaculture specialist with CFAES’s outreach arm, OSU Extension, is one of the scheduled speakers at the Ohio Aquaculture Association’s March 10 Aquaponics Workshop in Columbus. (Image: Rainbow trout, iStock.)
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Ohio needs more fish farmers
This CFAES workshop on Oct. 29 will net you a good start in being one…
Class on getting started in fish farming
Want to be a fish farmer? CFAES’s Ohio Center for Aquaculture Research and Development has 30 slots open in its Aquaculture Boot Camp-2, a yearlong program for first-timers and beginners. It offers an in-depth introduction to aquaculture, aquaponics and the business of fish farming. Participation is free, but you have to apply and be chosen. The center is at CFAES’s OSU South Centers in Piketon in southeast Ohio. Net further details.
Aquaponic fish production: Sustainable Farm Tour Series
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.)
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.)