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Polyculture as a tool to increase the economic income: a study case in the Gulf of Castellammare

Gianluca SaràArturo Zenone

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Settore BIO/07 - EcologiaMitigation040301 veterinary sciencesMitigation; Mollusc; Polyculture; South Tyrrhenian; Animal Science and ZoologyFish farmingPolyculture Mollusc Mitigation South Tyrrhenian.Economic Income0403 veterinary scienceAlgaeAquaculturePolycultureSouth Tyrrhenianlcsh:SF1-1100Trophic levelbiologybusiness.industry0402 animal and dairy science04 agricultural and veterinary sciencesbiology.organism_classification040201 dairy & animal scienceFisheryPolycultureSustainabilityFish <Actinopterygii>Animal Science and Zoologylcsh:Animal cultureMolluscbusiness

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Polyculture is a practice involving integration between organisms of different trophic levels (i.e. fish with low-trophic-level organism like molluscs and/or algae). This paper, reporting on a field experiment carried out during 2004 in the Gulf of Castellammare (South Tyrrhenian), showed that mussels transplanted in areas under fish farm influence grew up better than mussels transplanted far from fish farm. Thus, results pointed out polyculture as a reliable tool for i) increasing local bivalve production, ii) obtaining the reduction of importation from other countries and iii) increasing the environmental sustainability of fish aquaculture.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2010-04-01Italian Journal of Animal Science
https://doi.org/10.4081/ijas.2007.1s.837