Discrete water quality sampling at open-water aquaculture sites: limitations and strategies

Water Quality Considerations for Aquaculture

Fish and other organisms with aquacultural potential live in water, thus, it is no surprise that professional fish culturists state that "Water quality determines to a great extent the success or failure of a fish cultural operation" (Piper et al. 1982). Because water is an essential requirement for fish farming, any properly prepared business plan for aquaculture must describe the quality and ...

Aquaculture Water Quality for Small-Scale Producers

Today we known that solar energy can be stored as edible biomass by photosynthesis, but 10,000 years ago this assumption was unthinkable. However, the Neolithic man could developed agriculture, based on plant germination observations. Nowadays, the systems used for food production are practically the same (Koning et al., 2008). But for neolitican man, the empirical observation of germination pr...

Using high-frequency water quality data to assess sampling strategies for the EU Water Framework Directive

The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires that the ecological and chemical status of water bodies in Europe should be assessed, and action taken where possible to ensure that at least “good” quality is attained in each case by 2015. This paper is concerned with the accuracy and precision with which chemical status in rivers can be measured given certain sampling strategies, and how this c...

Water Quality in Hydroelectric Sites

Near-coastal water quality at reference sites following storm events.

Stormwater is a challenging source of coastal pollution to abate because stormwater also involves complex natural processes, and differentiating these processes from anthropogenic excesses is difficult. The goal of this study was to identify the natural concentrations of stormwater constituents along the 1377 km coastline of California, USA. Twenty-eight ocean reference sites, a priori defined ...