Tour d'horizon du potentiel de développement de l'aquaponie en France : présentation et regard critique sur cette voie de développement alternative pour les productions piscicoles et horticoles

L'aquaponie repose sur l'intégration de process de production aquacole et hydroponique permettant le recyclage et la valorisation des nutriments émis par l'élevage aquacole par des cultures végétales. Cette démarche innovante attire à la fois les filières aquacoles, car la co-production permet de réutiliser l'eau en permanence pour l'élevage ; mais également les filières horticoles en réduisant l'emploi d'intrants chimiques dans la conduite de production végétale. Le projet APIVA® (Aquaponie Innovation Végétale et Aquaculture) vise à développer et caractériser des pilotes aquaponiques fonctionnels, d'étudier leur faisabilité économique, leur impact environnemental et la qualité des produits obtenus, tout en modélisant les flux se produisant entre les compartiments (bassins d'élevage, surfaces de culture, filtre biologique). Après une rapide présentation de l'origine de l'aquaponie, cet article vise à définir les avantages et inconvénients de cette pratique innovante, les différentes formes qu'elle peut prendre, les diverses modalités de conception envisageables, ainsi que les aspects techniques à appréhender. En France, très peu de systèmes d'aquaponie commerciale sont actifs, mais beaucoup de projets émergent depuis quelques années, notamment en milieu urbain. Des exemples d'entreprises d'aquaponie commerciale à l'international sont présentés, avant de définir une typologie des porteurs de projet français. (Résumé d'auteur

Characterisation of waste output from flow-through trout farms in France: comparison of nutrient mass-balance modelling and hydrological methods

Water quality assessment is a key factor in the environmental management of freshwater networks, especially those including fish farms, which need cost-effective operational tools to monitor and control their waste output. In France, current legislation specifies limits in concentrations of dissolved compounds and suspended solids at fish-farm outlets. Despite the development of mass-balance modelling tools, chemical analysis of water (hydrological method) remains the most widely used method. To understand better the environmental impact of trout farms on aquatic ecosystems and to compare waste assessment methods, we monitored 20 commercial flow-through trout farms for 24 h, and we compared data obtained with the two methods (hydrological method and mass balance modelling) by linear regression. For total nitrogen and total phosphorus, the correlation between the two methods was high; thus, considering the uncertainty of both methods, this study was not able to determine which was more accurate. The high correlation between observed ammonia concentrations and predicted total nitrogen emissions provides a coefficient for estimating ammonia emissions at the farm level. The same approach is proposed for the evaluation of phosphate emissions. In conclusion, this study confirms the utility of simulation modelling for assessing nutrient release from fish farms

Aquaponics system, a solution to limit nutrient release by fish farming ?

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La programme Apiva® : Aquaponie innovation végétale et aquaculture : mise en place de pilotes

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Potentiel de développement de l’aquaponie en France : Le programme APIVA ® « Aquaponie Innovation Végétale et Aquaculture ».

Ce volume regroupe les textes issus du programme Casdar "Innovation et Partenariat" et "Recherche finalisée et innovation" de 2013. Le colloque de restitution s’est déroulé le 6 février 2019 sous l’égide du GIS Relance AgronomiqueNational audienceAquaponics is based on the integration of aquaculture and hydroponics production process making it possible the recycling and recovery of nutrients rejected by fish farming through vegetable production. This innovative approach is attractive for the aquaculture sectors as this co-production facilitates the recirculation of water with a minimal opening rate of the system, but also for the horticulture sector as it reduces totally or partially the needs of chemical inputs in soilless plant production. APIVA®’s project (“Aquaponics: Plant Innovation and Aquaculture”) aims to develop functional aquaponic pilot systems and to study the economic feasibility of such systems, but also their impact on the environment and on the quality of products, while modelling the flow occurring between the different compartments (fish farming, soilless culture, biological filter).After a brief presentation of the origin of aquaponics, this article aims to identify advantages and drawbacks of this innovative practice, but also the different forms it can take and the possible design methods and technical aspects to apprehend. In France, very few commercial aquaponics systems are already in activity, but many projects have been emerging in recent years, especially in urban areas. Some examples of commercial aquaponics companies abroad are presented before giving a typology of French project holdersL’aquaponie repose sur l’intégration de process de production aquacole et hydroponique permettant le recyclage et la valorisation des nutriments émis par l’élevage aquacole par des cultures végétales. Cette démarche innovante attire à la fois les filières aquacoles, car la co-production permet de réutiliser l’eau en permanence pour l’élevage ; mais également les filières horticoles en réduisant l’emploi d’intrants chimiques dans la conduite de production végétale. Le projet APIVA® (Aquaponie Innovation Végétale et Aquaculture) a permis de développer et de caractériser des pilotes aquaponiques fonctionnels, d’étudier leur faisabilité économique, leur impact environnemental et la qualité des produits obtenus, tout en modélisant les flux se produisant entre les compartiments (bassins d’élevage, surfaces de culture, filtre biologique). Après une rapide présentation de l’origine de l’aquaponie, cet article vise à définir les avantages et les inconvénients de cette pratique innovante, les différentes formes qu’elle peut prendre, les diverses modalités de conception envisageables, ainsi que les aspects techniques à appréhender. En France, très peu de systèmes d’aquaponie commerciale sont actifs, mais beaucoup de projets émergent depuis quelques années, notamment en milieu urbain. Des exemples d’entreprises d’aquaponie commerciale à l’international sont présentés, avant de définir une typologie des porteurs de projet françai

Cognitive enrichment to increase fish welfare in aquaculture: A review

International audienceWhile most animals have received increasing attention for their welfare, consideration for fish welfare has started more recently, particularly since the recognition that fish have emotions and complex cognitive abilities. Housing conditions in fish farms do not always meet fish ethological requirements as these conditions lack sufficient sensory and cognitive stimulations. An approach to address this issue involves enriching the rearing environment by including social, food, physical, or cognitive stimuli. Cognitive enrichment (CE) is a recent but promising concept to improve fish welfare by manipulating the predictability and controllability of their environment. It relies not only on the ability of fish to predict positive and negative events but also on their ability to perform and succeed in operant conditioning. In our present review, we identified four categories of CE: (i) feeding predictability, (ii) predictability of a negative event, (iii) operant conditioning through self-feeders, and (iv) learning experiences. Existing CEs were reviewed for their effects on behaviour, brain, zootechnical performances, and welfare in terms of physiological stress or physical integrity in the aquarium and farmed teleost fish. The review highlights unbalanced categories and the lack of adequate multidisciplinary analyses to assess the effects of these categories on fish welfare. Providing free access to self-feeders seems to be a good strategy, given its positive effects on zootechnical and physiological parameters. Other categories showed contradictory and species-dependent results; hence, further studies are required to confirm the benefits of CE on fish welfare. Finally, further investigations should also validate current CE systems and assess other strategies that may trigger positive emotions in fish

Cognitive enrichment to increase fish welfare in aquaculture: A review

While most animals have received increasing attention for their welfare, consideration for fish welfare has started more recently, particularly since the recognition that fish have emotions and complex cognitive abilities. Housing conditions in fish farms do not always meet fish ethological requirements as these conditions lack sufficient sensory and cognitive stimulations. An approach to address this issue involves enriching the rearing environment by including social, food, physical, or cognitive stimuli. Cognitive enrichment (CE) is a recent but promising concept to improve fish welfare by manipulating the predictability and controllability of their environment. It relies not only on the ability of fish to predict positive and negative events but also on their ability to perform and succeed in operant conditioning. In our present review, we identified four categories of CE: (i) feeding predictability, (ii) predictability of a negative event, (iii) operant conditioning through self-feeders, and (iv) learning experiences. Existing CEs were reviewed for their effects on behaviour, brain, zootechnical performances, and welfare in terms of physiological stress or physical integrity in the aquarium and farmed teleost fish. The review highlights unbalanced categories and the lack of adequate multidisciplinary analyses to assess the effects of these categories on fish welfare. Providing free access to self-feeders seems to be a good strategy, given its positive effects on zootechnical and physiological parameters. Other categories showed contradictory and species-dependent results; hence, further studies are required to confirm the benefits of CE on fish welfare. Finally, further investigations should also validate current CE systems and assess other strategies that may trigger positive emotions in fish

Co-Design ecologically intensive fish farming systems using agroecology and ecosystem services

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Co-design ecologically intensive fish farming systems using agroecology and ecosystem services

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