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Project LOBSTAQ : investigations on lobster (Homarus americanus) aquaculture, ecology and tertiary sewage treatment in controlled environmental systems
Research was based on different aspects of incorporating Homarus Americanus
cultural into the multi-trophic level marine aquaculture-wastewater treatment
system of the Environmental Systems laboratory at Woods Hole. Experiments were
directed .toward optimizing food sources available within the system, developing
designs to facilitate high density lobster growth, and elucidating the ecology
of Homarus.
The aquaculture-wastewater treatment system uses secondary sewage effluent
or its equivalent as a nutrient source for marine phytoplankton ponds which in
turn are fed into raceways containing racks of bivalves. The bivalves produce
soluble nutrients used to raise macroalgae, and solid material (biodeposits)
used to raise various deposit feeders. Almost all the N and over 50% of the P
is removed from the wastewater by the artificial food chain.Prepared under NSF Grant GY-1154