Development of Polyculture and Integrated Multi -Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) in Israel: A Review

dc.contributor.author Neori, Amir
dc.contributor.author Shpige, Muki
dc.contributor.author Guttman, Lior
dc.contributor.author Israel, Alvaro
dc.date.accessioned 2017-12-28T02:31:16Z
dc.date.available 2017-12-28T02:31:16Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.description.abstract Israeli aquaculture began in the 1920s, with common carp monoculture. This was followed by polyculture of carp with tilapias, grey mullet, and planktivorous carp. Scientific research on polyculture started in the 1950s and has since contributed to the global science and practice of green water aquaculture, especially with novel polyculture approaches and concepts. Today, the industry is characterized by intensive freshwater polyculture, implemented in earthen fish ponds and reservoirs. In the Mediterranean coastal plain, fresh, brackish, and marine water polyculture is carried out in semi-intensive fishponds. Polyculture in Israel is an entrepreneurial activity that combines ecological principles of Chinese polyculture with local technologies and objectives. The Biofloc approach (active suspension ponds, ASP), periphyton, and aquaponics, were developed in the 1980s in response to rising public and policymakers’ concerns and regulations on land use, pollution, use of chemicals, and organic manures. R&D on marine integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) systems began in the early 1970s at the National Center for Mariculture (NCM) in Eilat. It started with sea bream and mullet in earthen seawater ponds, whose plankton-rich water recirculated through bivalve and macroalgae biofiltration modules. An advanced form of the concept was deployed in the early 1980s and was studied in detail using nutrient budgets. Several system models with fish, bivalves, and algae, on small and pilot scales, were studied and quantified. Abalone, sea urchins, shrimp, brine shrimp, Salicornia, and periphyton, were added to the Eilat marine IMTA models, beginning in the 1990s. Upon entering the third millennium, Israeli research further examined the relationship between the sustainability and economics of IMTA in world aquaculture.
dc.format.extent 19 pages
dc.identifier.issn 0792-156X
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10524/57028
dc.subject fish; shellfish
dc.subject algae
dc.subject seaweed
dc.subject Salicornia
dc.subject oysters
dc.subject clams; abalone
dc.subject shrimp; carnivores
dc.subject herbivores
dc.subject omnivores
dc.subject detritivores
dc.subject nutrients
dc.subject.lcsh Fish culture--Israel.
dc.subject.lcsh Fish culture
dc.title Development of Polyculture and Integrated Multi -Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) in Israel: A Review
dc.type Article
dc.type.dcmi Text
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