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Aquacultural engineering is a multidisciplinary field of engineering and that aims to solve technical problems associated with farming aquatic vertebrates, invertebrates, and algae.[1] Common aquaculture systems requiring optimization and engineering include sea cages, ponds, and recirculating systems.[2] The design and management of these systems is based on their production goals and the economics of the farming operation.[3]
Aquaculture technology is varied with design and development requiring knowledge of mechanical, biological and environmental systems along with material engineering and instrumentation.[4] Furthermore, engineering techniques often involve solutions borrowed from wastewater treatment, fisheries, and traditional agriculture.
Aquacultural engineering has played a role in the expansion of the aquaculture industry, which now accounts for half of all seafood products consumed in the world.[5] To identify effective solutions the discipline is combined with both fish physiology and business economics unknowledge.
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- ^ Odd-Ivar Lekang (2013). Aquaculture Engineering (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-470-67085-9.
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- ^ Thomas B. Lawson (1995). Fundamentals of Aquaculture Engineering. Springer US. ISBN 978-1-4615-7049-3.
- ^ 2016 The State of the Worlds Fisheries and Aquaculture (PDF). Rome, Italy: United Nations. 2016. p. 77. ISBN 978-92-5-109185-2. Retrieved 2016-10-30.
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